Birkerts came to the United States and worked initially for Perkins and Will, then for Eero Saarinen, and finally for Minoru Yamasaki before opening his own office in the Detroit suburbs.

Core faculty has included fiction writers David Gates, Amy Hempel, Jill McCorkle, Sheila Kohler, Martha Cooley, Askold Melnyczuk, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Alice Mattison ; nonfiction writers Sven Birkerts, Susan Cheever, Phillip Lopate, Tom Bissell, and George Scialabba ; and poets April Bernard, Major Jackson, Timothy Liu, Amy Gerstler, Mark Wunderlich, and Ed Ochester.

* Birkerts, Gunnar, Gunnar Birkerts -- Metaphoric Modernist, Axel Menges, Stuttgart, Germany 2009 ; ISBN 978-3-936681-26-0

* Birkerts, Gunnar, Process and Expression in Architectural Form, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK 1994 ; ISBN 0-8061-2642-6

* Kaiser, Kay, The Architecture of Gunnar Birkerts, American Institute of Architects Press, Washington DC 1989 ; ISBN 1-55835-051-9

* Gunnar Birkerts & Associates, IBM Information Systems Center, Sterling Forest, N. Y., 1972 ; Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1973 ( Yukio Futagawa, editor and photographer ), A. D. A.

* St. Peter's Lutheran Church, by Gunnar Birkerts

* Lincoln Elementary School, by Gunnar Birkerts

The Kemper Museum ’ s 23, 200-square-foot concrete, steel and glass building, constructed from 1992 to 1994 at a cost of $ 6. 6 million, was designed by architect Gunnar Birkerts.

His father is noted architect Gunnar Birkerts.

Through apprenticeship with Soleri and with Gunnar Birkerts, he obtained registration as an architect and opened his practice in 1974.

* Gunnar Birkerts Architect

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, designed by Gunnar Birkerts, 1992-1994.

Gunnar Birkerts (, born January 17, 1925 in Riga, Latvia ) is a Latvian-American architect who, for most of his career, was based in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan.

Gunnar Birkerts was raised in Latvia but fled ahead of the advancing Russian army toward the end of the Second World War.

Gunnar Birkerts was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1970, and a Fellow of the Latvian Architect Association in 1971.

Gunnar Birkerts is noted for designing the new building of National Library of Latvia in Riga, currently under construction.

* Birkerts, Gunnar, Subterranean Urban Systems, Industrial Development Division-Institute of Science and Technology, University of Michigan 1974

* Martin, William, Gunnar Birkerts and Associates ( Yukio Futagawa, editor and photographer ), A. D. A.

* Gunnar Birkerts Architects, Inc.

*" Gunnar Birkerts papers 1930-2002 ", at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Previous Hopwood winners include Brett Ellen Block, Max Apple, Lorna Beers, Sven Birkerts, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Ciardi, Tom Clark, Lyn Coffin, Cid Corman, Christopher Paul Curtis, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Garrett Hongo, Lawrence Joseph, Jane Kenyon, Laura Kasischke, Elizabeth Kostova, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Davi Napoleon, Frank O ' Hara, Marge Piercy, William Craig Rice, Ari Roth, Davy Rothbart, Betty Smith, Ron Sproat, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmund White, Nancy Willard, Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and Maritta Wolff.

Following Rector's death in August 2007, Sven Birkerts took over as acting director of the Writing Seminars.

* Birkerts, Sven Postmodern Picaresque.

Sven Birkerts ( born September 21, 1951 ) is an American essayist and literary critic of Latvian ancestry.

Birkerts was born in Pontiac, Michigan.

Birkerts is the Director of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and the editor of AGNI, the literary journal.

The critic Sven Birkerts argued that the unfinished state of The Curse of Caste ( Collins died before completing it ) and its poor literary quality should disqualify it as the first building block of African-American literature.

Birkerts joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1959 and taught until 1990.

The ACSA ( Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture ) honored Birkerts with the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award in 1989-90.

Birkerts now maintains an architectural office in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

His son is noted literary critic Sven Birkerts.

He initially practiced medicine in Heidingsfeld, Germany ( now part of Würzburg ).

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The couple initially lived in Easton, but moved to Allentown, where James practiced law until his death in 1775.

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