Editing Eero Saarinen (section)

==Early life and education==
Eero Saarinen was born in [[Hvitträsk]], Finland (then an autonomous state in the [[Russian Empire]]) on August 20, 1910, to Finnish architect [[Eliel Saarinen]] and his second wife, Louise, on his father's 37th birthday.<ref name=MuseumFinnish1>{{cite web | author = Staff of Arkkitehtuurimuseo | date = 2012 | title = Eero Saarinen | work = MFA.fi | location = Helsinki, FIN | publisher = Arkkitehtuurimuseo [Museum of Finnish Architecture] | language = fi | url = http://www.mfa.fi/arkkitehtiesittely?apid=3870 | access-date = December 28, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170306113225/http://mfa.fi/arkkitehtiesittely?apid=3870 | archive-date = March 6, 2017 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name = MuseumFinnish2>{{cite web | author = Staff of Arkkitehtuurimuseo | date = 2012 | title = Eliel Saarinen | work = MFA.fi | location = Helsinki, FIN | publisher = Arkkitehtuurimuseo [Museum of Finnish Architecture] | language = fi | url = http://www.mfa.fi/arkkitehtiesittely?apid=3871 | access-date = December 28, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170306053205/http://mfa.fi/arkkitehtiesittely?apid=3871 | archive-date = March 6, 2017 | url-status = dead }}</ref> They migrated to the United States in 1923, when Eero was thirteen.<ref name=MuseumFinnish1/><ref name=MuseumFinnish2/> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/travel/eero-saarinen-michigan-architecture-modernist-design.html|title=Eero Saarinen's Michigan|last=Dorman|first=John L.|date=October 6, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 18, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He had a close relationship with fellow students, designers [[Charles Eames|Charles]] and [[Ray Eames]], and became good friends with architect [[Florence Knoll|Florence Knoll (née Schust)]].<ref name = ShapingtheFuture>{{cite book | author = Coir, Mark |date = 2006 |editor= Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa |editor2=Albrecht, Donald | title = Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future | chapter = The Cranbrook Factor | location = New Haven, CT | publisher =[[Yale University Press]] | isbn = 978-0972488129 | url = https://books.google.com/books?isbn=097248812X | access-date = March 21, 2017}}</ref>

Saarinen began studies in sculpture at the [[Académie de la Grande Chaumière]] in [[Paris]], France, in September 1929.<ref name="ShapingtheFuture" /> He then went on to study at the [[Yale School of Architecture]], completing his studies in 1934.<ref name=":0">{{cite web | author = Still, Sylvia | date = 2016 | title = Eero Saarinen | location = Muenchen, DEU | publisher = Art Directory GmbH | url=http://www.eero-saarinen-architect.com/ | work= Art-Directory.info |access-date=December 28, 2016}}</ref><ref name=MuseumFinnish1 /> He subsequently toured Europe and [[North Africa]] for two years, as well as working for a time in Helsinki in the office of architect Jarl Eklund, where he supervised the remodeling of the [[Swedish Theatre]] (1936). That same year, he returned to the United States to work in his father's architectural practice.<ref name=":0" />