Peter Papademetriou

March 22, 1999

 Peter Papademetriou is a teacher, a writer and a practicing architect. A native of Newark, New Jersey he did undergraduate studies at Princeton University and his professional M.Arch. at Yale University. He served on the faculty at Rice University in Houston, Texas, for 20 years, and has been Professor and Graduate Program Director at New Jersey Institute of Technology since 1988; he has lectured and taught in architecture programs in the United States and Canada. While at Yale, he was Co-Editor of Perspecta 12, the Yale Architectural Journal, which received the Architecture Critics Citation of the American Institute of Architects. He served as Correspondent with Progressive Architecture for twenty years, served as Contributing Editor to Texas Architect 1979-1987, and was for three years the first Executive Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education, subsequently serving two terms on the JAE Editoral Board. He has also written extensively in the international professional press, as well as several books. His professional practice has received AIA component and state design awards, in addition to publication.

Currently, he is engaged in a critical biography of the life and work of American architect Eero Saarinen, for which he received the Arnold W. Brunner Scholarship of the New York Chapter/AIA, support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Saarinen Bibliography
Peter C. Papademetriou

Published Book Chapters

"David S. Ingalls (patinoire)", "Kresge (auditorium de)", "Saarinen (Eero)", "Severud (Fred N.)", "TWA (terminal)"; l’art de l’ingénieur: constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur; Picon, Antoine (editeur); Centre Georges Pompidou/Le Moniteur; Paris, France; 1997; exhibition "l’art de l’ingénieur: constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur" at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, June 25 - September 29, 1997

"Eero Saarinen"; The Dictionary of Art; Turner, Jane Shoaf (editor); MacMillan Publishers, Ltd.; London; 1996

"SAARINEN, Eero"; International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, Volume 1/Architects; Van Vynckt, Randall J. (editor); St. James Press; Detroit, Michigan; 1993

"Dulles International Airport"; International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, Volume 2/Architecture; Van Vynckt, Randall J. (editor); St. James Press, Detroit, Michigan; 1993

"Dulles International Airport"; catalogue entry 107; The Making of Virginia Architecture; Wilson, Richard Guy (editor); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts/University of Virginia Press; Charlottesville, Virginia; 1992; exhibition "The Making of Virginia Architecture 1719-1990" at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, November 10, 1992-January 10, 1993

"In Search of a Modern American Architecture: The Saarinens After Cranbrook", catalogue essay, Kleinhans Music Hall: The Saarinens in Buffalo, 1940 - A Streamline Vision; exhibition at Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, New York; March 9-April 22, 1990

"Saarinen, Eero; Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engineering, And Construction, Volume 4; Wilkes, Joseph A.(editor); John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York; 1989

"Eero Saarinen"; Master Builders; Maddex, Diane(editor); The Preservation Press; Washington, D.C.; 1985

"Coming of Age: Eero Saarinen and Modern American Architecture"; Burns, Carol & Robert Taylor (co-editors); Perspecta 21; MIT Press; Cambridge, Mass.; 1985

"Eero Saarinen 1910-1961"; Supplement 7 (1949-1961) Dictionary of American Biography ; Charles Scribner's Sons; New York; 1981

Published Non-Refereed Journal Papers

"Eames, Saarinen: A Magic Box" (documentation and analysis of Case Study House 9-Entenza House); Casabella; Volume LXII, Nos. 662/663; December 1998 – January 1999 (Double Issue "Case del Novocento"); editorial review

"TWA",(Trans World Airlines Flight Center/Kennedy [Idlewild] Airport) (cover feature); MaMA: Magasin för Modern Arkitektur (Sweden); Number 2/May 1992; editorial review

"TWA’s Influence",(one of three-part appraisal of Trans World Airlines Flight Center/Kennedy [Idlewild] Airport); Progressive Architecture; May 1992; editorial review

"Saarinens' Smithsonian Drawings Retrieved" (discovery of prize-winning 1939 entry); Progressive Architecture; July 1991; editorial review

"Ontario's Saarinen" (Irwin Miller House, Windemere, Ontario; Eero Saarinen, Architect); City & Country Home (Canada); June 1989; editorial review

"On Becoming a Modern Architect: Eero Saarinen's Early Work 1928-1948"; OZ, Journal of the University of Kansas, Vol. 9; May 1987; editorial review

"Eliel Saarinen Residence at Cranbrook"; GA Houses 9; July 1981; editorial review

Publications: Quoted Articles On/In

The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention [cited in "The Office of Charles Eames and Ray Kaiser: The Material Trail" by Joseph Giovannini. Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Library of Congress/Vitra Design Museum 1997

Saarinen House and Garden: A Total Work of Art by Gregory Wittkopp (ed.) [cited: "Eliel Saarinen Residence at Cranbrook"; GA Houses 9; July 1981] Harry N. Abrams, Inc.1995

"Preservation: The Saarinens in Buffalo" by Matthew Ginal in Progressive Architecture June 1990

"Exhibition hinges on pivotal US architecture" by Robert Merritt in Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch September 15, 1985

"First shots in the modernist revolution" by Mark St.-John Erickson in The Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg) September 14, 1985

"Eero Saarinen in Perspective" by Andrea O. Dean in AIA Journal November 1981

Professional Presentations and Exhibitions

"Eero Saarinen and the Search for an American Modern Architecture"; 1999 Spring Lecture Series; New Jersey Institute of Technology; March 22, 1999 (invited).

"Saarinen Versus Saarinen"; panel presentation, "Architectural Trinity: 50 Years of the Des Moines Art Center" (with Franz Schulze, Edmund N. Bacon, I.M. Pei); Sheslow Auditorium, Drake University; Des Moines, Iowa; October 17, 1998 (invited).

"Eero Saarinen and American Modern Architecture"; Spring Lecture Series, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico; March 25, 1996 (invited).

"Saarinen Architectural Office Reunion" (session moderator); Cranbrook Academy of Art; Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; August 11-13, 1995 (invited).

"Eero Saarinen and American Modern Architecture"; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; Chicago, Illinois; October 16, 1991 (invited).

"Crow Island School: Progressive Education, Functional Design, and the Modern Vision" (keynote lecture); Children, Learning & School Design, National Invitational Conference for Architects & Educators; 50th Anniversary of Crow Island School; Northwestern University; Evanston, Illinois; November 17, 1990 (invited).

"Becoming an Architect: Eero Saarinen and American Modern Architecture"; (keynote speech); Associates' and Interns' Workshop; New Jersey Society of Architects 1990 Convention; Atlantic City, New Jersey; October 20, 1990; (invited).

"Eero Saarinen and the 'Search for Form'" (keynote speech); Symposium: "Eliel and Eero Saarinen"; Burchfield Art Center; Buffalo, New York; March 10, 1990 (invited).

"The Saarinen Legacy" (introductory lecture to six-part lecture series); Rice Design Alliance; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Houston, Texas; October 4, 1989 (invited).

"On Becoming a Modern Architect"; Fall 1987 Lecture Series; School of Architecture, Rice University, Houston, Texas; September 28, 1987 (invited).

"Eero Saarinen and the 'Search for Form'"; Summer Lecture Series; School of Architecture, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.; July 22, 1987 (invited).

"Eero Saarinen: From Atelier to Mainstream Practice"; Session "From Patrons to Clients: Case Studies in the History of Architectural Practice" (chaired by Robert Gutman, Princeton University); Annual Meeting, Society of Architectural Historians; San Francisco, California; April 25, 1987 (invited).

"Eero Saarinen and the 'Search for Form'"; "Evolving Perspectives" Lecture Series; College of Architecture, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; November 4, 1986 (invited).

"Eero Saarinen and the 'Search for Form'"; Session "Architecture in the 'Fifties: Between International Style and Postmodernism" (chaired by David Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania); Annual Meeting, College Art Association; New York, New York; February 15, 1986 (invited).

"Modernism in America"; Moderator for Symposium; College of William & Mary; Williamsburg, Virginia; September 6, 1985 (invited).

All the above references were provided by Prof.Peter Papademetriou

Credits:

Image 1-Provided by Prof. Papademetriou
Image 2--Casabella 662/663, p.123
Image 3-Ibid.p.125
Image 4-Ibid.p.120
Image 5-Ibid.p.126
Image 6-Ibid.p.128
Image 7-Ibid.p.130
Image 8-Ibid.p.133.