Saarinen style

2008-09-19T00:00:00

Saarinen: all-American guy.

I feel I should correct Dennis Sharp’s piece on the American Embassy (Debate August 29) when he calls Eero Saarinen a “Finnish” architect. His father may have been, but Eero was an American when he competed for the embassy project.

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