Kay Fisker: works and ideas in Danish modern architecture

"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...

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Main Author: Søberg, Martin 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2021
Edition:First edition
Series:Bloomsbury studies in modern architecture
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Online Access:DE-523
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Summary:"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 railways 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 hybridisation 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 contingent urban conditions. This concept of a 'contingent order' is not only a valuable context 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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 205 Seiten)
ISBN:9781350068223
DOI:10.5040/9781350068223

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