Architect Janis Leinieks Has Died 0 8

Leinieks was born in 1951. In 1975, he graduated from the Architecture Department of the Faculty of Construction at the Riga Polytechnic Institute and served as the chief architect of projects at the design institute "Pilsētprojekts."

In the 1990s, he held the position of deputy head of the State Inspectorate for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, and he was the initiator of the establishment of the Museum of Architecture of Latvia and its first director.

Leinieks was the author of books and studies on the masters of Latvian architecture and urban planning processes.

Among his works are the master plans for Lielvarde, Roi, and Subate, the project for the spatial organization of Kalnciema–Lielirbes streets, residential buildings in Riga on Miera Street, 80 and 82, as well as — in co-authorship — the Brothers' Cemetery in Valmiera.