The Most Famous
ARCHITECTS from Latvia
This page contains a list of the greatest Latvian Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 424 Architects, 1 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 52nd most number of Architects behind Zambia and Bangladesh.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Architects of all time. This list of famous Latvian Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Gunnar Birkerts (1925 - 2017)
With an HPI of 44.36, Gunnar Birkerts is the most famous Latvian Architect. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Gunnar Birkerts (Latvian: Gunārs Birkerts, January 17, 1925 – August 15, 2017) was a Latvian American architect who, for the most of his career, was based in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan. Some of his notable designs include the Corning Museum of Glass and the Corning Fire Station in Corning, New York; Marquette Plaza in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri; and the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2014, the National Library of Latvia in Riga was completed to his design.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as architects born between 1925 and 1925. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased architects include Gunnar Birkerts.
