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Gunnar Birkerts is a Latvian-American architect who is best known for his modernist designs. He was born on 17 January 1925 in Riga, Latvia. He studied architecture at the University of Michigan and later at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Birkerts has designed numerous buildings, including the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. He has also designed several buildings for the University of Michigan, including the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center and the Lurie Tower.
Birkerts has received numerous awards for his work, including the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 2004 and the Latvian Order of the Three Stars in 2006.
As of 2021, Gunnar Birkerts's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.
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Birkerts died at the age of 92 on August 15, 2017, in Needham, Massachusetts, of congestive heart failure.
In 2014, the National Library of Latvia in Riga was completed to his design.
In 1989 Birkerts was commissioned to design the new building for the National Library of Latvia in Riga, Latvia, which had great personal meaning for him. Also known as the Castle of Light, he drew from Latvian folklore about the Glass Mountain for its architectural form. The building was constructed over the period 2008 to 2014.
In 1970 Gunnar Birkerts was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a Fellow of the Latvian Architect Association in 1971. He received numerous individual awards, including a 1971 fellowship from the Graham Foundation, the Gold Medal of the Michigan Society of Architects in 1980, the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1981, and the 1993 Michigan Artist of the Year award. He received an honorary doctorate from Riga Technical University in 1990, the Order of the Three Stars from the Republic of Latvia in 1995 and the Great Medal of the Latvian Academy of Sciences in 2000.
He initially practiced in the partnership Birkerts and Straub. In 1963, he set up Gunnar Birkerts and Associates in Birmingham, Michigan.
The firm received Honor Awards for its projects from the (national) American Institute of Architects in 1962, 1970, 1973, as well as numerous awards from the Michigan Society of Architects and the local chapter.
Birkerts joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1959 and taught until 1990. The ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) honored Birkerts with the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award in 1989–90.
Birkerts immigrated to the United States that year and worked initially for Perkins and Will, based in Chicago. He moved to the Detroit area in the early 1950s, where he worked for Eero Saarinen, and was chief designer for Minoru Yamasaki before opening his own office in the city's suburbs. Birkerts also maintained an architectural office in Wellesley, Massachusetts
Birkerts was born and raised in Latvia, but escaped ahead of the advancing Soviet army toward the end of the Second World War. He graduated from the Technische Hochschule, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1949. He acknowledged being influenced by Scandinavian tradition and the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
Gunnar Birkerts (Latvian: Gunārs Birkerts, January 17, 1925 – August 15, 2017) was a Latvian American architect who, for most of his career, was based in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan.
