architecture

confusion

form

function

journalism

occupation / innovator as

architect

intellectual movement

modernism

nationality

American

Finnish

designer

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Letters

cause of death

natural causes

innovator in the field of

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

's purpose is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

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,

is the result of trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

Function influences but does not dictate form

is measured in rabbit time while architecture must be measured in elephant time.

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

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