Aleksandrs Klinklāvs (February 7, 1899 – October 6, 1982)Encyclopedia of Latvia/ Latvijas enciklopēdija. 3. sējums. Rīga.Publisher: Valērija Belokoņa izdevniecība. 2005. . was a Latvian architect, noted for his works in the functionalist style.
Education Aleksandrs Klinklāvs was born in Sēja Parish (formerly also Sēja Municipality, modern day Saulkrasti Municipality) in 1899. In 1930, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Latvia.
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 World War II he fled to Germany to escape the Soviet re-occupation of Latvia and in 1948 he moved to Canada. 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 Chicago-based architect bureau Jensen, Halstead & Rummel.
Klinklāvs participated in the establishment of the Montreal 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, Tērvete Sanatorium, buildings of the G. Ērenpreis Bicycle factory and the V. Ķuze Confectionery company (now – the Staburadze 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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