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Gunnar Birkerts, Architecture, Building, Studio, Image, Projects, Office, Design

Gunnar Birkerts, Architect : Architecture Information

Contemporary Architecture Practice, USA + Latvia



Key Projects

Museum of Occupation Riga
Gunnar Birkerts Building
image: M Karklins received from RIAS May 2003 re Gunnar Birkerts lecture

Gunnar Birkerts Buildings, alphabetical:

Adrian Domenican Sisters - Chapel, Adrian, Michigan, USA
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Air Touch Cellular Tower, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Cross of Christ Church, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
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Gunnar Birkerts with Di Clemente Siegel Design Inc.

Giesel Library - Underground Extension, University of California, San Diego, USA
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Gunnar Birkerts with Carrier Johnson

Lincoln Elementary School - Extension, Columbus, Indiana, USA
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Marriott Library - Underground Extension, University of Utah, Michigan, USA
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Gunnar Birkerts with Carrier Johnson

Museum of Occupation, Riga, Latvia
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Ohio State University - College of Law Extension / Refurbishment, Ohio, USA
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Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, Michigan Technical University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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Gunnar Birkerts with Di Clemente Siegel Design Inc.

More projects online soon





Practice Information

Latvian/Canadian architect - Review of Lecture by Gunnar Birkerts

Next up was Gunnar Birkerts, who many of us had heard of but couldn’t recall any one building. Gunnar made sure this didn’t last. He started with a long-winded explanation of ‘organic systems’, his modernist dogmatic approach, but lost me in a conflated comparison between library statistics.

It soon became clear, but after an amusing reminder that ‘we are here’ in Scotland (with ref. to his map) and the following ‘You Scots have it made because you have images that are so known that you don’t have to look for them’. He proceeded to gesticulate a kilt, an unusual bagpipe style and golf! More bizarrely came an unusual termite mound of a section for his Riga Library.

Powww!! it becomes an astonishing sculptural dry ski slope plopped into a leafy city plot. The influence of working for Eero Saarinen is apparent. In a postnote, the Latvian ambassador said ‘we’re still twenty years ahead of the British Library in London!’ I somehow doubt it’s exterior is ahead of even the awful - and dated - elevations of this building, to be awaited with concern by Latvians!
RIAS Convention 05.05.03

Gunnar Birkerts - Michigan Buildings

Latvian Architecture

Architecture Studios



 
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Gunnar Birkerts architecture - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

Website: www.gunnarbirkerts.com