Cranbrook Academy and Educational Community (Bloomfield Hills, MI) – Built 1920’s
Architect: Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen,
Cranbrook, close to where I grew up in Michigan, and holds a special place. When thinking of it, I recall Gaston Bachelard’s book “The Poetics of Space”. It’s a rare place that triggers all your senses – the buildings, gardens and artistic anomalies disguised in the masonry. The Saarinens laid a great foundation here with so many architects, artisans and craftsman’s contributing. A place I will always revisit in my trips back home.
Architect Christopher Mercier, AIA, left Frank Gehry’s Gehry Design Group in 2002 to establish his own architecture practice to create (fer) studio: Form, Environment Research. Their goal: to design contemporary spaces for creative clients, and to re-imagine and re-purpose existing structures, preserving their history and character while adapting them to modern use.
