Saarinen was recruited by his friend, who was also an architect, to join the military service in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. He returned to Cranbrook to work for his father and teach at the academy. Later, he toured Europe and North Africa for a year and returned for a year to his native Finland. He then studied at the Yale School of Architecture until 1934. He became good friends with Florence Knoll (née Schust).īeginning in September 1929, he studied sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France. He had a close relationship with fellow students Charles and Ray Eames.
He took courses in sculpture and furniture design there. He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father was a teacher at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Saarinen emigrated to the United States of America in 1923 at the age of thirteen. Eero Saarinen shared the same birthday as his father, Eliel Saarinen.
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