Biographical Note
Balthazar Korab was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1926. In his youth, he traveled throughout Europe and attended school in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1955 Korab began working as an architect for Eero Saarinen at his office in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Korab's work in the office afforded him the opportunity to develop his craft as both an architect and as a photographer. Korab first experimented and explored photography's uses in documenting working models and finished structures with projects in the Saarinen office. His work expanded to include photography of buildings during construction, completed works, and renovations. He was later hired to do similar work by leading architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, I. M. Pei, Minoru Yamasaki, William Kessler, Gunnar Birkerts, Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS), Rossetti, and other renowned architects and firms.