What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time. — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence, — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again. — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas. — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect. — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
