List of Famous people with last name Birkerts

Gunnar Birkerts

First Name Gunnar

Born on January 17, 1925

Died on August 15, 2017 (aged 92)

Born in Latvia

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

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Sven Birkerts

First Name Sven

Born on September 21, 1951 (age 74)

Born in United States of America, Michigan

Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies (1994), which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture." In 2006 he published a revised edition with new introduction and afterword, reflecting on the endurance of reading.

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