Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 withStatements by the ArchitectAline B. Saarinen (Editor)
Yale University Press, 1962

Hardcover w/slipcase | 10-1/4 x 14-1/2 inches | 108 pages | 70 illustrations | English | ISBN: | $X.00

A NOTE ON THIS BOOK:
Several years ago, on one of our frequent pilgrimages to Frank Lloyd Wright, Mr. Wright told Eero and me why he was wary of interviewers and writers. "They take the words from your mouth and put them in their own," he said, "and, worse than that, they take the smile off your lips and put it on their own."
When, after Eero's untimely death, various publishers and writers approached me about a book on his work, I remembered Mr. Wright's remarks. Eero, unlike Wright, Le Corbusier, and his own father, had never written books, but it seemed appropriate now to record his own words and smiles and to preserve these forever as his. Such a book would be a document which would allow him to speak as he did so charmingly, so sincerely, so informally to all of us who knew him so well; it would illuminate his attitude toward his beloved profession; and it would be a revelation of the creative processes that produced his work. "We must have an emotional reason as well as a logical end for everything we do," Eero once said. A book of his own statements could make clear his emotional and his logical intentions. It would not be a definitive history of his work (the time would no...