Gunnar Birkerts: Metaphoric Modernist

by Martin Schwartz

Latvian-born architect Gunnar Birkerts belongs to the second wave of modernists who arrived in the United States from abroad, a group that includes Kevin Roche and Cesar Pelli among others. Educated at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Birkerts worked first with Eero Saarinen in his now-legendary office in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and later was chief designer for Minoru Yamasaki. At that time both Saarinen and Yamasaki were developing their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3936681260
• ISBN13: 9783936681260
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Axel Menges
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.7" x 11.9"