Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Office buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Minneapolis IBM Office Complex
Contemporary Architects
Author: Muriel EmanuelPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134904184X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 935
Book Description
Architecture Minnesota
Author: Skyscraper
Author: Benjamin FlowersPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812241846
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In Skyscraper, Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and the way wealth and power have operated to reshape the urban landscape.
Amendments to Previously Approved Construction Resolutions ... Contained in the General Services Administration's Fiscal Year 1992 Capital Improvement Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and GroundsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
HKS
Author: HKS IncPublisher: Images Publishing
ISBN: 9781876907006
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Major international architects with many US and worldwide projects. One of the largest Texas-based firms with very strong corporate architecture.
EQB Monitor
Author: Minnesota Environmental Quality BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Architecture and Construction in Steel
Author: Alan BlancPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135828407
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the successful use of steel in building and will form a unique source of inspiration and reference for all those concerned with architecture in steel.
Current Architecture
Author: Charles JencksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
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).