An exhibition on the life and works of Finnish architect Eero Saarinen is on until the 4th of January 2009 at the Walker Center and the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. Here's a slideshow, an interview with his daughter, Susan Saarinen and a snippet from the review,

In the United States throughout the 1950s, it was a Finnish-born architect, Eero Saarinen, who shaped American dreams and ambitions with innovative buildings and imaginative furniture.

For 11 short years, Saarinen was a creative dynamo, spinning out designs of extraordinary originality -- the swooping, birdlike TWA terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport and St. Louis' Gateway Arch; buildings for Yale University, General Motors, Bell Labs, IBM and John Deere; homes, churches, embassies, and those icons of modernism, the pedestal chair and table.

He was a household name and magazine cover boy, his face on the front of Time in 1956 and his "womb chair" satirized by Norman Rockwell in a 1959 Saturday Evening Post cover.

And then it ended.

Photo credit: Joel Koyama