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47-564: Founded in 1980 by Curtis W. Fentress , FAIA, RIBA, the firm's designs, especially its airports, are often compared to the expressionist architecture of Eero Saarinen . However, architectural curator Donald Albrecht has noted that within Fentress' designs is a "stiff dose of regionalism . " Fentress Architects has studios in Denver, Colorado ; Los Angeles ; San Jose , California ; Washington, D.C. ; London ; and Shanghai . In 2010, Curtis Fentress

94-866: A naturalized citizen of the United States in 1940. In 1939, Saarinen married the sculptor Lilian Swann . They had two children, Eric and Susan Saarinen. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1954. That same year, Saarinen married Aline Bernstein Louchheim , an art critic at The New York Times . Saarinen met Louchheim when she came to Detroit to interview him for his contributions to the recently completed General Motors Technical Center . Saarinen and Louchheim had one son together, whom they named Eames after Saarinen's collaborator Charles Eames . In addition to their respective contributions to architecture, design, and criticism, Eero and Aline Saarinen are remembered for their affectionate and detailed personal papers, held at

141-652: A close relationship with fellow students, designers Charles and Ray Eames , and became good friends with architect Florence Knoll (née Schust) . Saarinen began studies in sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris , France, in September 1929. He then went on to study at the Yale School of Architecture , completing his studies in 1934. He subsequently toured Europe and North Africa for two years and then returned to

188-688: A design portfolio of $ 27 billion. Each year, more than 330 million people worldwide visit a project designed by Fentress Architects. In 2012, a major museum exhibition of Fentress Architects' airport designs entitled Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + the Architecture of Flight was opened at the Denver Art Museum . Curated by Donald Albrecht, architectural curator for the Museum of the City of New York whose previous exhibitions include well-received retrospectives on

235-495: A few residential structures on the campus, including Ridgewood Quadrangle (1950), Sherman Student Center (1952) and Shapiro Dormitory at Hamilton Quadrangle (1952). These have all been either demolished or extensively remodeled. One of his best known thin-shell concrete structures is the Kresge Auditorium at MIT . Another thin-shell structure is Ingalls Rink at Yale University , which has suspension cables connected to

282-613: A significant contribution to the quality of public architecture." Fentress was inducted into the Colorado Business Hall of Fame by Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain and the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce in 2017. In 2022, Fentress designed Terminal C at Orlando International Airport . Eero Saarinen Eero Saarinen ( / ˈ eɪ r oʊ ˈ s ɑːr ɪ n ə n , ˈ ɛər oʊ -/ , Finnish: [ˈeːro ˈsɑːrinen] ; August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961)

329-553: A single concrete backbone and is nicknamed "the whale". His most famous work is the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport , which represents the culmination of his previous designs and his genius for expressing the ultimate purpose of each building, what he called the "style for the job". In 2019, the terminal was transformed into the TWA Hotel and features furniture designed by Saarinen. Saarinen designed

376-572: A survey of 8.6 million international travellers. In May 2008, the City of Los Angeles selected Fentress Architects to modernize Los Angeles International Airport , the fifth busiest airport in the world. Fentress was inducted into the Denver Tourism Hall of Fame in 2009. Fentress designed the Colorado Convention Centre , winner of 18 design awards. Fentress is also the architect for the new Colorado Judicial Centre adjacent to

423-440: Is an American architect . He is currently the principal-in-charge of design at Fentress Architects , an international design studio he founded in Denver, Colorado in 1980. Fentress' work on Denver International Airport , Incheon International Airport and his modernization of Los Angeles International Airport have garnered recognition for design excellence and outstanding "airside-to-curbside" traveler experience. In 2023 he

470-465: Is that Saarinen's vision was adapted to each individual client and project, which were never exactly the same. Scully also criticized him for designing buildings that were "packages," with "no connection with human use . . . at once cruelly inhuman and trivial, as if they had been designed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff." The papers of Aline and Eero Saarinen, from 1906 to 1977, were donated in 1973 to

517-630: Is the designer of the Arraya Tower in Kuwait City . The tower is the tallest in Kuwait and the 53rd tallest in the world Curtis Fentress graduated with honors from North Carolina State University 's College of Design, School of Architecture where he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree. Following graduation, he joined the firm of I.M. Pei and Partners in New York City . As a Senior Designer, he

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564-614: The Archives of American Art , Smithsonian Institution (by Charles Alan, Aline Saarinen 's brother and executor of her estate ). In 2006, the bulk of these primary source documents on the couple were digitized and posted online on the Archives' website. The Eero Saarinen collection at the Canadian Centre for Architecture documents eight built projects, including the old Athens airport in Greece,

611-528: The Archives of American Art . Saarinen died on September 1, 1961, at the age of 51 while undergoing an operation in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a brain tumor . He was overseeing the completion of a new music building for the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance . By the 21st century, Saarinen was considered one of the masters of American 20th-century architecture. During that time, his work

658-658: The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri ; the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana ; the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport , which he worked on with Charles J. Parise; the main terminal of Washington Dulles International Airport ; and the new East Air Terminal of the old Athens airport in Greece, which opened in 1967. Many of these projects use catenary curves in their structural designs. In 1949 and 1950, Saarinen

705-609: The Ingalls ice rink, Ezra Stiles & Morse Colleges at Yale University , the MIT Chapel and neighboring Kresge Auditorium at MIT and the University of Chicago Law School building and grounds. Saarinen served on the jury for the Sydney Opera House commission in 1957 and was crucial in the selection of the now internationally known design by Jørn Utzon . A jury which did not include Saarinen had discarded Utzon's design in

752-837: The Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York , together with his father, Eliel Saarinen. He also designed the Embassy of the United States in London , which opened in 1960, and the former Embassy of the United States in Oslo . Saarinen worked with his father, mother, and sister designing elements of the Cranbrook campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan , including the Cranbrook School, Kingswood School,

799-617: The Museum of Finnish Architecture . The exhibition toured in Europe and the United States from 2006 to 2010, including a stint at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. The exhibition was accompanied by the book Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future . In 2016, Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future , a film about Saarinen co-produced by his son Eric Saarinen , premiered on

846-768: The Situation Room in the White House. Saarinen worked full-time for the OSS until 1944. Eero Saarinen was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1952. He was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954. In 1962, he was posthumously awarded a gold medal by the American Institute of Architects. In 1940, he received two first prizes together with Charles Eames in

893-621: The Cranbrook Art Academy, and the Cranbrook Science Institute. Eero Saarinen's leaded-glass designs are a prominent feature of these buildings throughout the campus. 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

940-511: The Grasshopper lounge chair and ottoman (1946), the Womb chair and ottoman (1948), the Womb settee (1950), side and arm chairs (1948–1950), and his most famous Tulip or Pedestal group (1956), which featured side and arm chairs, dining, coffee and side tables, as well as a stool. All of these designs were highly successful except for the Grasshopper lounge chair, which, although in production through 1965,

987-647: The State Capitol. Fentress has a design portfolio of $ 26 billion architectural projects worldwide. Designs by Fentress have been featured in more than 1,200 national and international articles and books and have been honoured with more than 400 awards and accolades for design excellence and innovation. In 2010, Fentress was given the Thomas Jefferson Award by the American Institute of Architects . The Jefferson Award recognizes Fentress for "a portfolio of accomplishments that evidences great depth while making

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1034-414: The United States in 1936 to work in his father's architectural practice. After his tour of Europe and North Africa, Saarinen returned to Cranbrook to work for his father and teach at the academy. His father's firm, Saarinen, Swanson and Associates, was headed by Eliel Saarinen and Robert Swanson from the late 1930s until Eliel's death in 1950 and headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan until 1961 when

1081-529: The World" in 2007 by passengers surveyed for the Official Airlines Guide. The firm designs a range of large scale projects (see listing below) from museums and convention centers, to stadiums and commercial office buildings. Bradburn retired, and in 2007, the firm's name was abbreviated from Fentress Bradburn Architects to Fentress Architects. To date, the firm has won 425 design and innovation awards and has

1128-745: The airport typology. The unveiling of DIA was marked by a dysfunctional "state-of-the-art" baggage delivery system (the vendor at fault has since replaced the system). Subsequently, DIA has been voted the "Best Airport in North America" and the fourth "Favorite American Architecture" completed in the last fifteen years. In 2001, Fentress designed the Incheon International Airport in Seoul , South Korea , voted "Best Airport Worldwide" four consecutive years by Airport Council International's Airport Quality Survey program. Airport Council "Best Airport in

1175-451: The art inside." Asked about his philosophical approach, Fentress once stated, "My philosophy is ultimately...pragmatism". LEED certified projects include, but are not limited to: Airports Civic Commercial Office & Mixed-Use Cultural Laboratory Public Assembly Education Hotel & Residential Newspaper/Magazine articles Curtis W. Fentress Curtis Worth Fentress FAIA RIBA (born 1947)

1222-522: The collapse of the oil and gas industries in Colorado in the early 1980s ushered in a period of difficulty for the firm. Fentress Architects' fortunes rebounded in 1987 when the firm won a design competition for the Colorado Convention Center. The competition pitted Fentress and his partners against several better-financed and more famous opponents, including Phil Anschutz , who had partnered with

1269-508: The firm belonging to Curtis Fentress' former mentor, I.M. Pei. It was only in the 1990s that Fentress Architects rose to international fame by designing the Denver International Airport . The peaked roof of the terminal has become well known to travelers worldwide and ushered in a revolution in more expressionistic airport design. Curator Donald Albrecht credits the design of Denver International Airport with bringing glamor back to

1316-670: The first round; Saarinen reviewed the discarded designs, recognized a quality in Utzon's design, and ultimately assured the commission of Utzon. After his father's death in July 1950, Saarinen founded his own architect's office, Eero Saarinen and Associates. He was the principal partner from 1950 until his death. The firm carried out many of its most important works, including the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex in Holmdel Township, New Jersey ;

1363-747: The former US Embassy Chanceries in Oslo, Norway and London, England , corporate projects for John Deere, CBS, and IBM, and the North Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana. An exhibition of Saarinen's work, Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future , was organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York in collaboration with Yale School of Architecture , the National Building Museum , and

1410-684: The furniture design competition of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 1948, he won the first prize in the Jefferson National Monument competition. The Boston Arts festival in 1953 gave him their Grand Architectural Award. He received the First Honor award of the American Institute of Architects twice, in 1955 and 1956, and their gold medal in 1962. In 1965 he took first prize in US Embassy competition in London. Saarinen became

1457-506: The interiors usually contained dramatic sweeping staircases as well as furniture designed by Saarinen, such as the Pedestal series. In the 1950s, he began to receive more commissions from American universities for campus designs and individual buildings. These include Birch Hall at Antioch College , the Noyes dormitory at Vassar and Hill College House at the University of Pennsylvania as well as

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1504-695: The practice was moved to Hamden, Connecticut . While still working for his father, Saarinen first gained recognition for his design capabilities for a chair he designed together with Charles Eames, which received first place in the Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition in 1940. The Tulip chair , like all other Saarinen chairs, was taken into production by the Knoll furniture company, founded by Hans Knoll , who married Saarinen family friend Florence (Schust) Knoll . Further attention came also while Saarinen

1551-540: The tallest in Kuwait. Arraya is one of 14 high rises in Fentress' design portfolio in the Persian Gulf. Fentress has developed a design process he calls the "Patient Search". He has said of the process; "I don't begin with a preconceived notion of what the building needs to be – it is not a sculpture. I patiently search, walk the site, study the culture, follow our process until I find a seam somewhere, crack it open and discover

1598-681: The work of such architectural notables as Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames , Now Boarding ran for nearly three months. A travelling version of the exhibition appeared in Amsterdam in November 2012, and the exhibition's full version will open in at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA beginning in March 2013. World's Best Airports: Fentress-designed Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea

1645-537: Was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer who created a wide array of innovative designs for buildings and monuments, including the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan ; the passenger terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. ; the TWA Flight Center (now TWA Hotel ) at John F. Kennedy International Airport ; and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis . He

1692-597: Was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree by North Carolina State University . Fentress graduated from North Carolina State University 's College of Design, School of Architecture in 1972. After graduation, Fentress early work was at I.M. Pei and Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York City . Fentress then moved to Denver, Colorado as the Kohn Pedersen Fox 's Project Designer for the Rocky Mountain Headquarters of Amoco in downtown Denver. Denver

1739-410: Was awarded the highest award for public architecture, the Thomas Jefferson Award, by the American Institute of Architects AIA Awards website. Fentress was also given the Silver Medal in 2010, which is the highest award given to an architect from the AIA Western Mountain Region for the contributions made to the region. In 2012, Fentress was awarded AIA Colorado's Architect of the Year. Fentress Architects

1786-555: Was chosen as the base for his new firm, C.W. Fentress and Associates with James Henry Bradburn. In 2004, Bradburn retired and in 2007 the firm's name was abbreviated from Fentress Bradburn Architects to Fentress Architects. Today, the firm maintains studios in Denver, Colorado, Los Angeles, California, Washington, D.C. and San Jose, California. Fentress Architects became internationally recognized after designing Denver International Airport (DIA), known for its unique white canvas peaked roof and streamlined "curbside to airside" design. DIA

1833-416: Was constructed in 1956, with Saarinen using models, which allowed him to share his ideas with others and gather input from other professionals. With the success of this project, Saarinen was then invited by other major American corporations such as John Deere , IBM / IBM Rochester , and CBS to design their new headquarters or other major corporate buildings. Despite the overall rational design philosophy,

1880-423: Was hired by the then-new Brandeis University to create a master plan for the campus. Saarinen's plan A Foundation for Learning: Planning the Campus of Brandeis University (1949; second edition 1951), developed with Matthew Nowicki , called for a central academic complex surrounded by residential quadrangles along a peripheral road. The plan was never built but was useful in attracting donors. Saarinen did build

1927-456: Was not a big success. One of Saarinen's earliest works to receive international acclaim is the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois (1940). The first major work by Saarinen, in collaboration with his father, was the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan , which follows the rationalist design Miesian style , incorporating steel and glass but with the addition of accent of panels in two shades of blue. The GM Technical Center

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1974-399: Was responsible for the master planning of major site development plans. He became a project designer with the New York architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox . During this time, he came to Denver as the Project Designer for the Rocky Mountain Headquarters of Amoco in downtown Denver. In January 1980, Fentress formed C.W. Fentress and Associates with James Henry Bradburn. After early success,

2021-486: Was still working for his father when he took first prize in the 1948 competition for the design of the Gateway Arch National Park (then known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in St. Louis . The memorial was not completed until the 1960s. The competition award was mistakenly addressed to his father because both he and his father had entered the competition separately. During his long association with Knoll he designed many important pieces of furniture, including

2068-465: Was the son of Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen . Eero Saarinen was born in Hvitträsk on August 20, 1910, to Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and his second wife, Louise, on his father's 37th birthday. They migrated to the United States in 1923, when Eero was thirteen. He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan , where his father taught and was dean of the Cranbrook Academy of Art , and he took courses in sculpture and furniture design there. He had

2115-429: Was the subject of a major exhibition and several books. This is partly because Roche-Dinkeloo , the successor to Saarinen's firm, donated its Saarinen archives to Yale University, but also because Saarinen's oeuvre can be said to fit in with present-day concerns about pluralism of styles. He was criticized in his own time—most vociferously by Yale's Vincent Scully —for having no identifiable style; one explanation for this

2162-440: Was voted "World's Best Airport" by Skytrax's 2009 World Airport Awards, a survey of 8.6 million international travelers. World's Most Beautiful Airports: Denver's airport features a Teflon-coated tensile fabric roof—the world's largest when the airport opened in 1995. World's 4th tallest building completed in 2009: Fentress is the designer of the world's 4th tallest building completed in 2009—Arraya Tower in Kuwait City, also

2209-412: Was voted the "Best Airport in North America" for four consecutive years and the fourth "Favourite American Architecture" landmark completed in the last fifteen years, ahead of the Getty Centre , TransAmerica Building and the Guggenheim Museum . Fentress also designed Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, which was voted the World's Best Airport by Skytrax's 2009 World Airport Awards,

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