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**A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim’s life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world of architecture media** 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 shows how, without Louchheim as his wife and publicist, Saarinen’s wo

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Author

Eva Hagberg Fisher

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691206677

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Architecture