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 ...