Eero Saarinen, a pragmatic FULL OF DREAMS The cycle of events dedicated to cinema-architecture combination continues at the center of the conference Thursday, June 24, Eero Saarinen, with brilliant and enigmatic figure in architecture and design of the first half of twentieth century.
Son of Eliel Saarinen, the famous architect called in 1925 to design the Cranbrook Institute of Campus Architetcure and Design, Eero Saarinen was born in Finland in 1919, but soon moved to the U.S. where he remained until his death in 1961. Currently considered one of the members of the group of architects of the second generation of modernists, Saarinen, the architect explains Massimo Imparato, "has been marginalized for too long by international critics for his premature death, which occurred just fifty years, both in As elusive figure, unwilling to follow consistent patterns and led to the development projects always very different, where it is difficult to trace
a strong and constant. The videos presented by the architect Leary, one of leading scholars of the figure of Saarinen are the result of two different contexts: the first video documentary was created as complementary to the itinerant exhibition "Shaping the future", retrospective of the Finnish architect, opened in Helsinki in 2007, then to Oslo spostatasi , Brussels, Detroit, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, St. Louis and New York, and ended in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2010. The documentary highlights many professional aspects, but especially the human side and deeply sensitive Eero Saarinen.
The second video "The modern dream trilogy" examines, with the help of archive images and unpublished contributions, different trends which have driven the architectural research in the United States in the late '40s and early '70s: the movie is divided into three sections, which correspond to the distinctive features of modernity embodied in three great architects: "The imagination of modernity: Eero Saarinen "" The essence of modernity: L. Mies Van Der Rohe, "and" The newspaper of modernity: Marcel Breuer. " architecture, space, man, are the main topics on which he loved to dwell Saarinen, and more emerge from the movies: "Architecture is the set of what surrounds us," said "Is the physical space that surrounds the man." And at the center of reflection, man, because, "that is based on the individual is our success" and, of course, architecture, enriched by Saarinen, a sacred value, almost mystical: "The architect must have a religious role:
as religion instills hope, so the architect must strengthen confidence in the nobility of human existence. " architecture, that of Eero Saarinen, as concluded Massimo Imparato, turns out to be, for our contemporary world, "a real lesson in pragmatism full dreams and confidence. "
To see the complete video of the evening, go to the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ Ordinevarese
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