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Meet the Author: Eva Hagberg

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Category: Education
Start date: 08 Apr 2023 02:00 PM
End date: 08 Apr 2023 03:00 PM
Street / Location: 2655 NW Market St
City / town: Seattle
Country: Washington, USA
Organizer: The National Nordic Museum
Name: Dana Lo
Email: danal@nordicmuseum.org
Phone: 206.789.5707
Homepage: www.nordicmuseum.org/events/meet-the-author-eva-hagberg

Providing a new understanding of postwar architectural history in the United States, When Eero Met His Match is both a poignant love story and a superb biographical study that challenges us to reconsider the relationship between fame and media representation, and the ways the narratives of others can become our own.

Aline B. Louchheim (1914–1972) was an art critic on assignment for the New York Times in 1953 when she first met the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. She would become his wife and the driving force behind his rise to critical prominence. When Eero Met His Match draws on the couple’s personal correspondence to reconstruct the early days of their thrilling courtship and traces Louchheim’s gradual takeover of Saarinen’s public narrative in the 1950s, the decade when his career soared to unprecedented heights.

Drawing on her own experiences as an architecture journalist on the receiving end of press pitches and then as a secret publicist for high-end architects, Eva Hagberg paints an unforgettable portrait of Louchheim while revealing the inner workings of a media world that has always relied on secrecy, friendship, and the exchange of favors. She describes how Louchheim codified the practices of architectural publicity that have become widely adopted today and how Louchheim, as his wife and publicist, made Saarinen’s work famous.

Providing a new understanding of postwar architectural history in the United States, When Eero Met His Match is both a poignant love story and a superb biographical study that challenges us to reconsider the relationship between fame and media representation, and the ways the narratives of others can become our own.

About the author:
Eva Hagberg is a writer and historian based in Brooklyn. Her books include When Eero Met His Match and How to Be Loved. She has a PhD in Visual and Narrative Culture from UC Berkeley and teaches at Columbia GSAPP and Bard College.