As it happens, what she wanted was to champion Saarinen’s work and supercharge his career. Parsing the couple’s many letters to each other, Hagberg paints Louchheim as a skilled tactician, who leveraged power dynamics and skirted journalistic ethics to get what she wanted. We have Louchheim to thank, Hagberg argues, for Saarinen’s enduring influence on mid-century architecture, and When Eero Met His Match makes a strong case for “how her work - her words - are just as integral to Saarinen’s legacy as the buildings themselves.” Aline Saarinen At Work, Box 3 Folder 10, Aline and Eero Saarinen Papers 1906-1977, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institutionīut Louchheim and Saarinen’s relationship wasn’t rooted in altruism or exploitation - it was much more intentional than that. Eva Hagberg’s When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect (Princeton University Press, 2022) is ostensibly about the great woman, critic and publicist Aline Louchheim, behind a great man, architect Eero Saarinen. When deployed by second-wave feminists, it invoked systemic, gendered self-sacrifice, generations of housewives, caretakers, and clerical workers whose labor and support propped up countless powerful men. What is today a trite proverb - that behind every great man is a great woman - was once a radical idea.
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