Editing Eero Saarinen (section)

==Honors and awards==
Eero Saarinen was elected a [[FAIA|Fellow]] of the [[American Institute of Architects]] in 1952.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lxj9Rjr2ekcC&q=Eero+Saarinen+elected+Fellow+American+Institute+of+Architects+in+1952&pg=PA96|title=On Railways Far Away|last=Middleton|first=William D.|date=2012|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|isbn=9780253005946|language=en|pages=96}}</ref> He was elected a member of the [[National Institute of Arts and Letters]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite news|title=Five Elected to Arts Institute|access-date=March 22, 2017|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 10, 1954|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/02/10/84104503.pdf|page=36}}</ref> In 1962, he was posthumously awarded a gold medal by the American Institute of Architects.<ref>{{cite web|last1=American Institute of Architects|title=Gold Medal-AIA|url=http://new.aia.org/awards/7046-gold-medal|website=AIA|access-date=March 22, 2017}}</ref>

In 1940, he received two first prizes together with [[Charles Eames]] in 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.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |last1=Emanuel |first1=Muriel |date=2016 |title= Contemporary Architects |publisher=[[Springer Publishing|Springer]] |isbn=9781349041848 |page=695}}</ref>