As Eero Saarinen struggled to maintain his relationship with his wife, his relationship with Aline Louchheim and their shared professional ambition bloomed.
Features
Clip | Aline Louchheim and Eero Saarinen
Clip | Eero Saarinen’s Design of the CBS Building in New York City
Clip | How Eero Saarinen Imagined the Ingalls Rink at Yale
Clip | Conquering gravity with Saarinen at the TWA Flight Center
Clip | Eero Saarinen’s Revolutionary Design of the Dulles Airport
Clip | Eliel and Eero Saarinen’s Work on First Christian Church
Clip | Eero Saarinen’s Design of the MIT Chapel
Clip | Reconstructing Eero Saarinen’s MIT Chapel
Clip | Marking Man’s Time on Earth at General Motors
Eero Saarinen’s Search for Architecture
Clip | Eero and Eliel Saarinen Compete for St. Louis
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future - Trailer
About the Film
TRANSCRIPT
I always resented my father for literally abandoning my mother, my sister and me, but I never saw it from his point of view. My mom was depressed, and she was kind of left alone because he was obsessed by his work, and the marriage went south.
Meanwhile Aline understood my father's work and embraced it.
If you and Lily were to separate tomorrow and by some miracle everything would go smoothly, I would still not take it as an indication that you would marry me. I'd be very seriously heartbroken, but I don't want you to feel obligated or trapped.
You don't realize that I'm like a turnip or a potato - one of those plants that have stored up below ground a tremendous amount of lust for a full-blooming life.
In my first marriage, all those things laid dormant hoping that someday a situation would come where this, my new real life, could begin.
Won't it be nice when all this is settled and you can get back to being an architect and to designing, and I can write you about ideas instead of legal clauses.
Aline represented the same kind of ambition he had. She's very much right there as his career as a solo architect takes off. She positions him in the very first article for this whole explosion and boom in his career is going to be.
