Kay Fisker : works and ideas in Danish modern architecture
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Kay Fisker : works and ideas in Danish modern architecture
(Bloomsbury studies in modern architecture)
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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