Kay Fisker: Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781350244276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 232 str.

Denmark) Sobe Martin (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

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List of illustrations Series Preface Timeline List of works by Kay Fisker Introduction Multiple facets of modern architecture Constructing a subject 1. A clearly defined form Simple, yet picturesque Into the countryside Twin houses in a garden city Pavilion purism 2. Ordering the modern city Contemporary classicism Grandeur and clarity Houses facing an urban condition Variations of the perimeter block 3. Typologies of housing Dissolving the perimeter Architectural propaganda Typological pursuits A Copenhagen Siedlung 4. Welfare and the architecture of institutions The hospital The university The sanatorium The work camps The Mother’s Aid 5. Beyond conventions History reinterpreted Post-war housing policies Suburban life Prefab wonders 6. Time and tradition Fisker, the historian Transforming historical matter The functional tradition Order and anonymity Conclusion General bibliography Bibliography of the writings of Kay Fisker Index