Process and Expression in Architectural Form

Process and Expression in Architectural Form

by Gunnar Birkerts
2/5

"It is the importance of context that makes Gunnar Birkerts's buildings mature continuations of a great tradition, but it is the special interpretation of context not only in terms of the physical environment but also in terms of the historic challenge th.

First published
1994
Publishers
University of Oklahoma Press
Subjects
Organic architecture·Architectural design·Architectural practice

Gunnar Birkerts

About Gunnar Birkerts

Principal, Gunnar Birkerts & Associates. He emigrated to the United States in 1949 and worked with Eero Saarinen in Birmingham, Michigan, and with Minoru Yamasaki. He started his own firm in 1963 in Birmingham. Many of his buildings are in and around Detroit, but he also designed the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Latvian National Library in Riga. He taught at the University of Michigan 1959-1990, and authored several books on architecture....

Books

Similar books