Kay Fisker
Kay Fisker

Author: Martin Søberg

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-07

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1350068195

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Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book examines Fisker's key projects – from his early railway stations and innovative housing projects to the Danish Academy in Rome – and analyses his work as a historian and writer. Fisker's output is closely associated with the functional tradition, a hybridization of international modernism and regional architectural typologies, and this book shows how his architectural poetics can be understood as an amalgamation of an ideal order with the contingent conditions of landscapes and urban sites. Hybridization is not only a valuable notion for understanding Fisker, the book argues, it can also be applied to an understanding of modernist architecture as a whole, with its various expressions, agendas and tensions both regionally and internationally.

Contemporary Copenhagen - Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects
Contemporary Copenhagen - Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects

Author: Jane Wirenfeldt Nielsen

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9789198533538

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For almost a century, the aim of Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects has been to make Copenhagen a better city to live in. The studio strives for a design that transcends time and manages a constantly changeable reality. In their view, good architecture emanates from function and is drawn from inside and out. Thus, it can be equal and afford everyone a good life. Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects is behind many of the most noticed contemporary community buildings in Copenhagen, such as the Danish Radio House, Copenhagen Airport, the residential area Krøyers Plads, the New North Zealand Hospital, the department store Illum and the world?s first cross-functional media house DR City.00The founder of the studio, Vilhelm Theodor Lauritzen (1894?1984), was one of the most distinguished modern Danish architects. His conviction, that ?architecture is applied art for the people ? never a privilege for the few?, is still alive. This book covers the processes behind some of the buildings that have shaped modern Copenhagen.