Kay Fisker : works and ideas in Danish modern architecture / Martin Søberg.

Main entry:

Søberg, Martin, 1978- author.

Title & Author:

Kay Fisker : works and ideas in Danish modern architecture / Martin Søberg.

Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.
©2021

Description:

xxiv, 205 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in modern architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- A Clearly defined form -- Ordering the Modern city -- Typologies of housing -- Welfare and the Architecture of Institutions -- Beyond Conventions -- time and Tradition -- Conclusion.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781350068193 hardback
1350068195 hardback
9781350244276 paperback
1350244279 paperback
(pdf)
9781350068209
(epub)
9781350068216
9781350068223

Subject:

Fisker, Kay, 1893-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Fisker, Kay, 1893-1965.
Architecture and society Denmark History 20th century.
Architecture et société Danemark Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Denmark.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Bloomsbury studies in modern architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310039
Call No.: BIB 255170
Status: Available

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