Gunnar Birkerts is a rather inconsistent architect in terms of his overall body of work. After his academic period in Stuttgart, where he studied alongside the Weissenhof Siedlung in the years following World War II, he moved to the United States in 1949, working in the studio of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, where he met figures such as Kevin Roche, César Pelli, and Robert Venturi. He later collaborated with Minoro Yamasaki until he founded his own firm in 1959. His early works show a marked influence from Nordic architecture – which he introduces us to when he talks about Sven Markelius, Ame Jacobsen, and Alvar Aalto – as in the case of the Roosevelt Memorial and the funeral home in Southfield, Michigan, where his work is marked by high-quality architecture...[+]