  eero saarinen () (august 20, 1910 â september 1, 1961) was a finnish american architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for shaping his neofuturistic style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.eeva-liisa pelkonen and donald albrecht (eds), eero saarinen. shaping the future (2006) ==biography== eero saarinen, the son of influential finnish architect eliel saarinen and his second wife, louise, was born on his father's 37th birthday, august 20, 1910. see also  they emigrated to the united states of america in 1923, when eero was thirteen. he grew up in bloomfield hills, michigan, where his father was a teacher at the cranbrook academy of art and he took courses in sculpture and furniture design there. he had a close relationship with fellow students charles and ray eames, and became good friends with florence knoll (nÃ©e schust). beginning in september 1929, he studied sculpture at the acadÃ©mie de la grande chaumiÃ¨re in paris, france. he then went on to study at the yale school of architecture, completing his studies in 1934. subsequently, he toured europe and north africa for a year and returned for a year to his native finland, after which he returned to cranbrook to work for his father and teach at the academy. he became a naturalized citizen of the united states in 1940. saarinen was recruited by donal mclaughlin, an architectural school friend from his yale days, to join the military service in the office of strategic services (oss). saarinen was assigned to draw illustrations for bomb disassembly manuals and to provide designs for the situation room in the white house.{{cite web |first=mina |last=marefat |title=revealed: eero saarinen's secret wartime role in the white house" |date=october 25, 2010 |publisher=architectural review |url=http://www.architectural-review.com/view/washinton-dc-usa-revealed-eero-saari
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