Gunārs Birkerts, the prolific Latvian-American architect best known for designing the "Castle of Light"—the world's largest library in Riga, Latvia—has died aged 92. The National Library ...

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.

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 ...

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 ... One of the works that defined the latter part of his career was the Latvian National Library in Riga, which was commissioned in 1991 ...