Saarinen, Eero

Eero was the son of the noted architect Eliel Saarinen and Loja Gesellius, a sculptor. The Saarinen family of four, including a sister, Eva-Lisa, moved to the United States in 1923. Eero attended public schools in Michigan. In 1929 he studied sculpture at the Acad�mie de la Grande Chaumi�re in Paris but, as he recounted years later, �it never occurred to me to do anything but follow