LC control no. | n 85073611 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Birkerts, Gunnar |
Variant(s) | Birkerts, Gunars |
Associated place | Birmingham (Mich.) |
Located | Needham (Mass.) Detroit Region (Mich.) |
Birth date | 1925 |
Death date | 2017-08-15 |
Place of birth | Rīga (Latvia) |
Place of death | Needham (Mass.) |
Field of activity | Architecture |
Affiliation | Gunnar Birkerts & Associates University of Michigan |
Profession or occupation | Architects |
Found in | His Gunnar Birkerts, 1985: t.p. (Gunnar Birkerts) p. 92 (b. 1925) LC data base, 7-1-85 (hdg.: Birkerts, Gunnar) Čaklais, M. Gaismas kungs, c2002: p. 4 of cover (Gunars Birkerts) Chicago tribune WWW site, viewed Aug. 16, 2017 (in obituary dated Aug. 15, 2017: Gunnar Birkerts, an acclaimed Detroit-area architect who designed major buildings throughout the Midwest, including the former Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and an addition to the University of Michigan Law Library, died Tuesday [Aug. 15, 2017]; Birkerts, 92, died at home in the Boston suburb of Needham, Mass., where he had moved to be near family; born in Riga, Latvia, in 1925; arrived in the U.S. in 1949; moved to the Detroit area in the early 1950s; in 1963, he established his own firm, Gunnar Birkerts and Associates in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham; Birkerts was a professor at the University of Michigan's architecture school and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
Associated language | eng |