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Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future (Peter Rosen, 2016).

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Episode 504 - Eva Hagberg

Author & architecture critic Eva Hagberg rejoins the show to celebrate her new book, WHEN EERO MET HIS MATCH: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect (Princeton University Press). We get into how Aline built the narrative around Eero Saarinen’s greatest buildings, her pivotal role in shaping the way we — media, laypeople, and critics — talk about architecture, and how publicity has been intertwined to architecture ever since. We also talk about how Eva’s own career in architecture PR is woven through the book, why her original title was What Would Aline Do?, the moment she realized Aline & Eero’s correspondence was Ph.D. thesis-worthy, and the notion of legacy and the ego of architects. Plus, Eva being Eva, we get into oversharing, divorce, IVF, the VERY impending birth of her first child, and more! Follow Eva on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to our 2019 conversation • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

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n 1953, an established arts journalist named Aline Bernstein Louchheim, then working as an associate art critic for The New York Times, flew to Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to interview Eero Saarinen, the son of renowned architect Eliel Saarinen and solo architect on the rise, and write a profile for the newspaper. She hadn’t been the first choice for the assignment; that was John McAndrew, a professor at Wellesley College, but something had happened with him, and she’d volunteered, or been volunteered to go, and so there she was, ready to meet Saarinen, do the requisite interview, and go home.

The assignment itself was nothing new for Louchheim: She was as comfortable reporting on executive shake-ups at the California Modern Institute as she was exploring the issue of monumentality in architecture; as well-versed in the formal qualities of Alvar Aalto’s curved forms as she was in Mies’ Modernism. She was part of an exclusive social milieu in New York, attending garden parties with Philip Johnson, palling around with playwright Clifford Odets (she broke a date with him to write the Saarinen profile), becoming romantically entangled with Edgar Kaufmann Jr., son of the Fallingwater Kaufmanns. She’d never met Eero, although she’d written about him once before: in 1948, when she’d reported on the results of the St. Louis Gateway Arch competition, the event that ended the partnership between the elder and younger Saarinen, when, after years of working together, they submitted separate designs—and Eero won.

https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/the-untold-story-of-aline-louchheim-saarinen_o

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Listen in to the Ideas Podcast with Eva Hagberg who draws on the personal correspondence between New York Times art critic Aline B. Louchheim and Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen to reconstruct the early days of their thrilling courtship. Hagberg traces Louchheim’s gradual takeover of Saarinen’s public narrative in the 1950s, the decade when his career soared to unprecedented heights.

Eva Hagberg teaches in the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College and at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Her books include How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship and Nature Framed: At Home in the Landscape. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Episode 306 - Eva Hagberg Fisher

She got through brain surgery, heart surgery, and House-level chronic illness (oh, yeah, and addiction) and came out the other side with a brand-new memoir, but could Eva Hagberg Fisher make it through a podcast-session without catching a cold from her host? We tempt fate with a long conversation about How To Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship (HMH), the unlikely friendship that saw her through this, the self-jinx of writing about her health, the perverse urge to see her tumor marker tests get worse because at least it would end the uncertainty of her diagnosis, and how pain taught her to balance sobriety with moralizing and martyrdom. We also get into the performative aspect of social media, her ongoing impulse to deception and secrecy and the act of performing vulnerability, the right and wrong way to process one's emotions, her anxiety in the wake of her recent essay on being in debt, her problems with The Artist's Way, her immense thanks that her editor cut 95 pages of relationship drama down to two paragraphs, and the stuff you really want to hear us talk about: her dissertation on the professionalization of architectural publicity via the letters of Eero Saarinen and Aline Bernstein Louchheim! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

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