Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland, on August 20, 1910. His father, the architect Eliel Saarinen, and his family moved to Michigan in 1921. After receiving a B.F.A. in Architecture from Yale University in 1934, Saarinen joined his father’s firm (Saarinen, Saarinen and Swanson) and began work as an architect. After his father’s death in 1950, Saarinen began to make a name for himself as an architect, started his own firm (Eero Saarinen and Associates), and established a reputation as a prolific, innovative and versatile designer. Saarinen died suddenly of a brain tumor at the age of 51 on September 1, 1961.

The collection includes drawings, photographs, correspondence, writings, clippings, and audio-visual material relating to Saarinen’s professional work as an architect, as well as a small amount of personal material created by himself, his wife, Aline Saarinen, and his father, Eliel Saarinen.

Architect; born on the Island of Osel, Russia, brought to U.S. in 1905. Kahn was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1915. He received a B. Arch., U. Pa. in 1924. He had a private practice in architecture from 1953-1974 and was a professor of architecture at the U. Pa. from 1957-1974, named to Paul Philippe Cret chair in architecture, 1966-1971, emeritus, 1971-1974; prof. architecture, Yale, 1952-1957; among his principal works are the Yale Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art.

The collection consists of publications on or by Louis Kahn and photographs of structures designed by Kahn.