Aleksandrs Klinklāvs (February 7, 1899 – October 6, 1982)Encyclopedia of Latvia/ Latvijas enciklopēdija. 3. sējums. Rīga.Publisher: Valērija Belokoņa izdevniecība. 2005. . was a Latvian

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, noted for his works in the functionalist style.

Education

Aleksandrs Klinklāvs was born in Sēja Parish (formerly also

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, modern day

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) in 1899. In 1930, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the

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Career

In the early 1930s he started to work in the building department of the Latvian Red Cross and established his own architecture firm. From 1936 to 1940 he worked in Latvian Chamber of Crafts. During

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he fled to

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to escape the Soviet re-occupation of Latvia and in 1948 he moved to

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. He worked in the architect bureau '' Barott, Marshall & Meritt'', where he was the main designer, and in 1959 he became the main designer in the

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-based architect bureau '' Jensen, Halstead & Rummel''. Klinklāvs participated in the establishment of the

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Latvian Theater. In his list of projects there are various hospitals and public buildings. In Latvia he designed the building of Ministry of Finance of Latvia,

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Sanatorium, buildings of the

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and the

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Confectionery company (now – the

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building) in Riga.From Leutner to Erenpreis. 100 years of bicycle manufacturing in Latvia by Edvīns Liepiņš, Jānis Seregins (2009). Published: in Rīga, publisher: Latvijas 143 80085 Industriālā mantojuma fonds. .

Selected list of buildings by A. Klinklāvs

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, built in 1932 (together with A. Kalniņš). File:RigaBrivibas40.jpg, Residential building at

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References

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