- Sven
Birkerts (born 21
September 1951) is an
American essayist and
literary critic. He is best
known for his book The
Gutenberg Elegies (1994),
which posits...
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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...
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ability to think". The Observer.
Retrieved October 20, 2008.
Birkerts 1994, pp. 17–20
Birkerts 1994, pp. 146–149 John
Walsh and Kate Burt (September 14,...
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morally focused as any in
American writing." In The
Washington Post, Sven
Birkerts referred to Mao II as one of DeLillo's best novels.
While arguing that...
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slang words, many of them do****ented on the
website Urban Dictionary. Sven
Birkerts wrote: "as new
electronic modes of
communication provoke similar anxieties...
- 1992 to 1994 at a cost of $6.6 million, was
designed by
architect Gunnar Birkerts. The
structure has a
large central atrium under an
articulated skylight...
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spirit of Wright's architecture. Mr.
Monaghan then went to
Gunnar Birkerts, the
architect of Domino's
unusual half-mile (800 m) long headquarters...
- 4:08 productions, Ivan Doig:
Landscapes of a
Western Mind. In 2006, Sven
Birkerts described Doig as "a
presiding figure in the
literature of the American...
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actor Léopold
Bernhard Bernstamm (1859–1939),
Russian sculptor Gunnar Birkerts (1925–2017), Latvian-American
architect Leonīds Breikšs (1908–1942), Latvian...
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philologist still, that is to say, a
teacher of slow reading." Sven
Birkerts, in his book The
Gutenberg Elegies,
stated "Reading,
because we control...
