Definition of Eliel Saarinen

1. Noun. Finnish architect and city planner who moved to the United States in 1923; father of Eero Saarinen (1873-1950).

Exact synonyms: Saarinen
Generic synonyms: Architect, Designer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eliel Saarinen

Elfreda
Elgan
Elgar
Elgin Marbles
Elginism
Eli
Eli Whitney
Elia
Elias
Elias Canetti
Elias Howe
Elie Metchnikoff
Elie Metchnikov
Elie Wiesel
Eliel
Eliel Saarinen (current term)
Eliezer
Eliezer Wiesel
Elihu Thomson
Elihu Yale
Elijah
Elijah Muhammad
Eliniko
Elinikon
Elinor
Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie
Elinvar
Eliomys
Eliot
Eliotian

Literary usage of Eliel Saarinen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"251 The Finnish pavilion was designed by Eliel Saarinen, the British by Sir Edwin Lutyens — inspired by the Hall at ..."

2. Crimson Architectural Historians 1994-2002 by CRIMSON (Firm : Rotterdam, Netherlands), Stichting Rotterdam-Maaskant (2002)
"This movement was structured round the Finnish folk epic, the Kalevala, by its spiritual leaders Eliel Saarinen.Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Lars Sonck ..."

3. Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology by Ad Graafland, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, George Baird (2006)
"... but rather, such figures as Eliel Saarinen, Clarence Stein, Henry Wright - not to mention such figures as the New Deal creators of the Tennessee Valley ..."

4. OECD Territorial Reviews by Oecd (2003)
"Prior to the rise of Modernism, Finnish masters such as Eliel Saarinen and Lars Sonck had been important designers in the national Romantic style at the ..."

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