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Gunnar Birkerts, Architect : Architecture

Contemporary Architectural Practice, USA + Latvia

Gunnar Birkerts - Key Projects Museum of Occupation Riga image: M Karklins received from RIAS May 2003 re Gunnar Birkerts lecture Gunnar Birkerts Buildings Designs by Gunnar Birkerts, alphabetical: Adrian Domenican Sisters - Chapel, Adrian, Michigan, USA - Air Touch Cellular Tower, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA - Cross of Christ Church, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA - Gunnar Birkerts with Di Clemente Siegel Design Inc. Giesel Library - Underground Extension, University of California, San Diego, USA - Gunnar Birkerts with Carrier Johnson Lincoln Elementary School - Extension, Columbus, Indiana, USA - Marriott Library - Underground Extension, University of Utah, Michigan, USA - Gunnar Birkerts with Carrier Johnson Museum of Occupation, Riga, Latvia - Ohio State University - College of Law Extension / Refurbishment, Ohio, USA - Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, Michigan Technical University, Houghton, Michigan, USA - Gunnar Birkerts with Di Clemente Siegel Design Inc. More projects by architect Gunnar Birkerts online soon

Gunnar Birkerts - Practice Information

Latvian/Canadian architect - design studio based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA

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 Birkerts 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 the unusual elevations of this building, to be awaited by Latvians!
RIAS Convention 05.05.03

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