Born 1910 Kirkkonummi, Finland. Died 1961 Ann Arbor, USA. 1923 The Saarinen family emigrated to the United States. 1929/30 Eero Saarinen studied sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. 1930–34 Architectural studies at the Yale School of the Fine Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. 1936 Worked in his father’s architectural studio and assisted him in his activities as a professor at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.