Gunnar Birkerts

Who they were

Biography 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 . [ 1 ] Birkerts emigrated to the United States that year and initially worked for Perkins and Will , a global design practice based in Chicago . He moved to the Detroit area in the early 1950s,

Gunnar Birkerts was a Latvian American architect who, for the most of his career, was based in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan.

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Gunnar Birkerts appears on our August 15 calendar for 2017 as a death entry.