So richly informed and insightful. Thank you so much!

Excellent tour. I was there for a tour of the Saarinen house two weeks ago, so it’s wonderful to see the rest of the campus. Such a beautiful, inspiring campus.

Dude you are really good at these virtual tours! Super knowledgeable and pleasant to list to. I can also tell how passionate you are about the history and architecture and artistry of it all!

From an Architect / 93 years old /350 projects in 9 states and 4 foreign countries.......apprentice to Wallace Harrison....Victor Lundy.....Louis Kahn...just so you know where I am coming from. I admire ES as an Architect. I very much like his work in Finland and was overwhelmed by my visit to the Cranbrook site. More than this tour (which is great) I recall the masterful "Weaving" of the brick which is better in reality than in TV. There are however....sadly elements of Power---one might say Fascism (Breuer /Gropius / Mies were Fascists but just not Fascist enough for Hitler so they landed in the USA...........Wright was an avid Americas Firster (Fascist) and we all know about Alfred Speer..........and another famous American Architect (Philip Johnson a Hitler admirer).....but elements such as super collonades defeat the original intent which was rural England and esp. Chipping Camden and the genesis of the world-wide Arts and Crafts Movement. ES certainly knew how to put materials together....the best! But he like the others mentionerd seems to have lost his sense of "the little" or "the human scale. He seems to have been corrupted by America, a little. Of couse I am a little crude in my evaluation and may well recive needed correction and criticism. I just realised that I said and wrote most of above 50 years ago. Note #1: Add Le Corbusier to the list. What's wrong with these guys? Note #2: A mea culpa: After a lifetime of work (and a job just went to bid a few months ago) I conclude that the only honorable style ("Do No Harm") is American Arts and Crafts which incliudes Prarie Style. My hero is the author H.Allen Brooks, who I knew as a student and never appreciated until 30 years later. He is a cool head.I apologise profoundly to his ghost, wherever that may be. One grows wise with age.