Deere & Company Administrative Center Exemplifies a 'Quiet Revolution'

摘要

A quiet revolution in the design of corporate headquarter buildings happened in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Deere & Company Administrative Center, which opened in 1964, was one of the works of architecture that changed the face of American buildings as corporate identity symbols. Its architect, Eero Saarinen, emigrated to the Midwest from Finland when his father, architect Eliel Saarinen, finished second in the Chicago Tribune Tower competition in 1923. The standard-bearer of this new strain of Modernism appeared not in Berlin or New York, but in Moline, Ill.