The Architecture of Gunnar Birkerts
Author | : Kay Kaiser |
Publisher | : Centro Di |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9788870381726 |
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Author | : Kay Kaiser |
Publisher | : Centro Di |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9788870381726 |
Author | : Gunnar Birkerts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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).
Author | : Gunnar Birkerts |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780806126425 |
Generously illustrated with concept development sketches as well as site plans, section drawings, full schematics, and photographs of finished buildings, this engaging volume focuses on "organic synthesis," the creative process that is architect Gunnar Birkerts's methodology and philosophy. Birkerts likens his organic approach to listening to music: the music must be heard as it unfolds; an attempt to perceive it all at once would reduce it to noise. Organic synthesis occurs as all aspects of a project present themselves: the building site, the building program and budget, available materials and technologies, emotional or intuitive content revealed through architect-client interaction.
Author | : William Marlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Architects |
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Author | : Jānis Dripe |
Publisher | : Axel Menges |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Architects |
ISBN | : 9783932565700 |
The building of the National Library of Latvia is a landmark of the capital city of Riga, a spatial symbol and architectural icon, created by one of the 20th century renowned modernists--the Latvian-born American architect Gunnar Birkerts. It is one of the largest cultural buildings in Northern Europe in the 21st century and acquired a symbolic and meaningful name: The Castle of Light. The pyramidal structure which rises 68 meters high is a place of cognition equipped with state-of-the-art technology where up to 8 million units of national printed materials can be stored.
Author | : Kay Kaiser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Amy Arnold |
Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1423644980 |
Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan’s architecture and design heritage. The Great Lakes State has always been known for its contributions to twentieth-century manufacturing, but it’s only beginning to receive wide attention for its contributions to Modern design and architecture. Brian D. Conway, Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Officer, and Amy L. Arnold, project manager for Michigan Modern, have curated nearly thirty essays and interviews from a number of prominent architects, academics, architectural historians, journalists, and designers, including historian Alan Hess, designers Mira Nakashima, Ruth Adler Schnee, and Todd Oldham, and architect Gunnar Birkerts, describing Michigan’s contributions to Modern design in architecture, automobiles, furniture and education.
Author | : Gunnar Birkerts |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Architects |
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Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1972 |
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