When Eero Met His Match by Eva Hagberg - 9780691284286

Name: When Eero Met His Match by Eva Hagberg - 9780691284286
Brand: Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press

When Eero Met His MatchAline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect\nAuthor(s): Eva Hagberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691284286, 978-0691284286\nSynopsis\nA uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheims life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world of architecture media\n\nAline B. Louchheim [tel] was an art critic on assignment for the New York Times in 1953 when she first met the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. She would become his wife and the driving force behind his rise to critical prominence. When Eero Met His Match draws on the couples personal correspondence to reconstruct the early days of their thrilling courtship and traces Louchheims gradual takeover of Saarinens public narrative in the 1950s, the decade when his career soared to unprecedented heights.\n\nDrawing on her own experiences as an architecture journalist on the receiving en.