Matrix International

November 10, 2009 to January 31, 2010.
 Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York

The exhibition is the first retrospective on the Finnish-born architect, whose buildings and furniture transformed 20th-century architecture and design and continue to inform visual culture today.
Following its presentation in Helsinki, the exhibition traveled to museums in Oslo, Brussels, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, St. Louis and New York, ending its tour in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2010, the centennial of Saarinen’s birth.

During the Exibition will be shown the Documentary film "Shaping the Future"

The documentary, produced by KDN Films for the project "Eero Saarinen, shaping the future", was made thanks to the sponsorship by Graham Foundation and Matrix International.

Eero Saarinen: Shaping The Future

Production screenplay and direction    Bill Ferehawk, Ed Moore, Bill Kubota
Year                                                 2006
Time                                                16 min

The documentary film is part of the project “Eero Saarinen: Shaping The  Future”, the first comprehensive retrospective exploring the work of one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial masters of 20th-century architecture.
The project has been developed with the collaboration of Finnish Cultural Institute di New York, Museum of Finnish Architecture, National Building Museum di Washington, D.C., with the support of Yale School of Architecture.
The documentary chronicles the life and work of the architect, focusing not only on Saarinen’s buildings in their cultural context but also the collaborative, 24-hour-a-day process that produced them. New and exclusive interviews with more than a dozen people tell the Saarinen story in a search to understand his genius and his little-understood, yet influential, design process.

The documentary relates most directly to the exhibition section devoted to the architect and his milieu and offers personal anecdotes and commentary by key figures in Saarinen’s life; intimate family friend Florence Knoll Bassett; critics Vincent Scully and Allan Temko; and architects such as Kevin Roche, Cesar Pelli, and Ralph Rapson, who worked in Saarinen’s office before launching their own distinguished careers.

New York Times Article

Museum of the City of New York