Gunnar Birkerts : buildings, projects, and thoughts, 1960-1985.

Main entry:

Birkerts, Gunnar.

Title & Author:

Gunnar Birkerts : buildings, projects, and thoughts, 1960-1985.

Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1985.

Description:

96 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-95).
Also issued online.

Summary:

Gunnar Gunivaldis Birkerts was born in Riga, Latvia on January 17, 1925. At the end of World War II, he fled Latvia ahead of the advancing Soviet Army and made his way to Germany. He received diplomas in engineering and architecture from Stuttgart's technical university. He emigrated to the United States in 1949. He worked for the Chicago firm Perkins & Will for two years before joining Eero Saarinen's firm. In 1956, he joined Yamasaki, Leinweber & Associates. In 1959, he and his colleague Frank Straub formed their own firm, Birkerts & Straub. In 1963, he started his own firm, Gunnar Birkerts & Associates. He designed the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, the American embassy in Caracas, and the Latvian National Library in Riga. He taught architecture at the University of Michigan from 1959 to 1990. He wrote several books including Subterranean Urban Systems, Gunnar Birkerts: Buildings, Projects, and Thoughts, 1960-1985, and Process and Expression in Architectural Form. In 1981, he received the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture. He died on August 15, 2017 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography).

ISBN:

0961479205 (pbk.)
9780961479206 (pbk.)

Subject:

Birkerts, Gunnar Catalogs.
Birkerts, Gunnar.
Birkerts, Gunnar Catalogues.

Form/genre:

Catalogs.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 73506
Call No.: ID:86-B12421
Status: Available

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