Editing Eero Saarinen (section)

==Legacy==
By the 21st century, Saarinen was considered one of the masters of American 20th-century architecture.<ref name=ShapingtheFuture2/>{{page needed|date=December 2016}} During that time, his work 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 is that Saarinen's vision was adapted to each individual client and project, which were never exactly the same.<ref name=ShapingtheFuture2/>{{page needed|date=December 2016}} 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."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scully |first1=Vincent |title=American Architecture and Urbanism |date=1988 |pages=196–200 |edition=New Revised}}</ref>

The papers of Aline and Eero Saarinen, from 1906 to 1977,<ref>{{cite web | author = AAA Staff | date = December 28, 2016 | title = Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 1906-1977 |work = Archives of American Art (AAA) | url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/aline-and-eero-saarinen-papers-5589 | access-date=December 28, 2016 | location = Washington, DC | publisher = Smithsonian Institution}}</ref> were donated in 1973 to the [[Archives of American Art]], Smithsonian Institution (by Charles Alan, [[Aline B. Saarinen|Aline Saarinen]]'s brother and executor of her estate<ref>{{cite web|last1=Meehan|first1=Jennifer|title=A Finding Aid to the Aline and Eero Saarinen Papers, 1906-1977, in the Archives of American Art|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/aline-and-eero-saarinen-papers-5589/more-information|website=Archives of American Art|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|access-date=January 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116141735/https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/aline-and-eero-saarinen-papers-5589/more-information|archive-date=January 16, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>). In 2006, the bulk of these primary source documents on the couple were digitized and posted online on the Archives' website.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/aline-and-eero-saarinen-papers-5589|title=Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 1906-1977|publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]]|access-date=November 7, 2017}}</ref>

The Eero Saarinen collection at the [[Canadian Centre for Architecture]] documents eight built projects, including the old [[Ellinikon International Airport|Athens airport]] in Greece, the former US Embassy Chanceries in [[Embassy of the United States, Oslo|Oslo, Norway]] and [[Embassy of the United States, London|London, England]], corporate projects for John Deere, CBS, and IBM, and the [[North Christian Church]] in Columbus, Indiana.<ref>{{cite web |title=Finding aid for the Eero Saarinen collection |url=https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/archives/422920/eero-saarinen-collection |website=[[Canadian Centre for Architecture]] |access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref>

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 the [[Museum of Finnish Architecture]]. The exhibition toured in Europe and the United States from 2006 to 2010,<ref>{{cite web | author = Arkkitehtuurimuseo Staff | date = October 1, 2006 | title = Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future | url = http://www.mfa.fi/eerosaarineneng | language = en | work = MFA.fi | location = Helsinki, FIN | publisher = Arkkitehtuurimuseo [Museum of Finnish Architecture] | access-date = December 28, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070513151053/http://www.mfa.fi/eerosaarineneng | archive-date = May 13, 2007 | url-status = dead }}</ref> including a stint at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.<ref>{{cite web | author = NBM Staff | date = May 3, 2008 | title = Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future | work = NBM.org | location = Washington, DC | publisher = National Building Museum (NBM) | url = http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/eero-saarinen-shaping-the-fut.html | access-date = December 28, 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161228124756/http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/eero-saarinen-shaping-the-fut.html | archive-date = December 28, 2016 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> The exhibition was accompanied by the book ''Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future''.<ref name=ShapingtheFuture1>{{cite book |editor= Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa |editor2=Albrecht, Donald | date = 2006 | title = Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future | location = New Haven, CT | publisher = Yale University Press | isbn = 978-0972488129 | url = https://archive.org/details/eerosaarinenshap0000saar | url-access = registration | access-date = December 28, 2016}}</ref>

In 2016, ''Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future'', a film about Saarinen co-produced by his son [[Eric Saarinen]], premiered on the ''[[American Masters]]'' series on [[PBS]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/eero-saarinen-film/7507/|title=Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future ~ About the Film &#124; American Masters &#124; PBS|first=Kait|last=Hoehne|date=September 13, 2016|website=American Masters}}</ref>