When in 1948 Eero Saarinen won the competition to design what became the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, his fame was assured. But his story begins much earlier with his collaborations with his father, Eilel, a Finnish-born architect and city planner and his mother Loja, a textile artist and sculptor. Bill Keene explores the family’s creative history, as well as Eero Saarinen’s career, studded with a series of iconic and trendsetting projects­. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)