American Masters Documentary on Eero Saarinen to Air Tonight

On Dec. 27, PBS's American Masters documentary series, presented by WNET's public television station Thirteen, will conclude their 30th anniversary season with an hour-long episode called “Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future." The documentary follows the celebrated architect Eero Saarinen's son Eric, on a journey through the modernist structures his father designed, including the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Dulles International Airport near Washington D.C., the David S. Ingalls Skating Rink at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport near New York City. Eero, who died at the age of 51 in 1961, was posthumously awarded the AIA Gold Medal one year after his death, for his stellar contributions to American architecture.