Gunnar Birkerts

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Gunnar Birkerts was a Latvian-American modernist architect renowned for his innovative, sculptural designs for cultural and institutional buildings in the United States.


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instanceOf Latvian-American person
architect
modernist architect
awardReceived American Institute of Architects Honor Award
Latvian Order of the Three Stars
birthCountry Latvia
birthDate 1925-01-17
birthPlace Riga
countryOfCitizenship Latvia
United States of America
deathDate 2017-08-15
designed Corning Museum of Glass
Corning Museum of Glass expansion
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Latvian National Library
Marquette Plaza
Museum of Glass in Tacoma conceptual work (early competition phase)
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Riga (reconstruction concept involvement)
U.S. Embassy chancery renovation concepts (various projects)
University of Michigan Law Library addition
University of Michigan School of Architecture and Urban Planning building
educatedAt Riga Polytechnic Institute
University of Stuttgart (postwar studies/association)
employer University of Michigan
familyName Birkerts
fieldOfWork architecture
givenName Gunnar
influencedBy European modernism
Latvian cultural traditions
knownFor cultural buildings
innovative sculptural architectural forms
institutional buildings
memberOf American Institute of Architects
movement Modernism
name Gunnar Birkerts
nationality Latvian-American
notableWork Corning Museum of Glass expansion
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Latvian National Library
occupation architect
residence Michigan
United States
style modernist architecture
sculptural architecture
taughtAt University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning
workLocation Ann Arbor
Detroit
Minneapolis
United States

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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
architect
Gunnar Birkerts
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