NEW YORK — Gunnar Birkerts ... gave Mr. Birkerts its Twenty-five Year Award to honor the museum’s enduring significance. His final building, the Latvian National Library in Riga, also known ...

Riga, Latvia’s National Library of Latvia (NLL), Birkerts ... then founded his independent firm Gunnar Birkerts & Associates in 1964. Even after most of his former colleagues at the Saarinen ...

Tributes were flowing in Tuesday for the late Gunnar Birkerts, a Latvian-born ... long dream of seeing his design for the National Library of Latvia in his native Riga completed.

NEEDHAM, Mass. — Gunnar Birkerts, an internationally acclaimed modernist architect who designed buildings including the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, the Corning Museum of Glass in ...

Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-born architect and educator, passed away on August 15, 2017, at the age of 92. A passionate advocate of a creative process he called "organic synthesis," he leaves behind ...

Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-born architect and educator ... One of the works that defined the latter part of his career was the Latvian National Library in Riga, which was commissioned in 1991 ...