Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future

May 3 - August 23, 2008

In celebration of Eero Saarinens remarkable achievements, the National Building Museum, in collaboration with the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki and the Finnish Cultural Institute, will present the first major retrospective of his work. Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, will feature full-scale building models, never-before seen drawings, furniture, photographs, films, and other artifacts. By exploring the architects wide-ranging career from the 1930s through the early 1960s, the exhibition will be the first opportunity to fully understand Saarinens collective work.