Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Special Issue: Gunnar Birkerts
Author: Gunnar Birkerts
Author: Gunnar BirkertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
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).
The Architecture of Gunnar Birkerts
Author: Kay KaiserPublisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Gunnar Birkerts has designed some of America's most innovative and distinctive architecture. A member of the Modern Movement's postwar generation, he has shown that modernism can accommodate lyrical, emotional, dynamic, and regional influences within its abstract construct. His design concepts, which grow from the individual character of site and client, defy stylistic categorization. Over his career he has won more than fifty major awards. The Architecture of Gunnar Birkerts not only presents the architects work, but also explores the influences of his background, design methodology, and philosophy on his buildings. -- from book flap.
Gunnar Birkerts
Author: Contemporary Architects
Author: Ann Lee MorganPublisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
" To strengthen the contemporary focus of this volume, we have added about forty architects and have deleted some whose activity ceased before World War II. In making these decisions, we have been assisted by an Advisory Board. As in the first volume, we have continued to define the word "architect" very broadly, so as to include planners, theorists, structural engineers, and landscape architects whose work seems to be central to the enterprise of creating habitable spaces in our day." --Editor's note.
The Bentley Historical Library
Author: GA Document
Author: Design Book Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Alternatives in Energy Conservation
Author: Contemporary Architects
Author: Muriel EmanuelPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134904184X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 935
Book Description