Gottlieb Bindesbøll: Denmark's First Modern Architect

This monograph provides the first presentation and analysis of the Danish architect Gottlieb Bindesbøll’s (1800-1856) oeuvre. It shows how, regardless of the style he chose, he created unity in a radically new way that brings to mind nature’s own way of “designing.” How he conceived new signs that undogmatically revealed the purpose of a building. And how rather than being perfect creations, his buildings are remodeling projects that integrated specific plans and remnants from the work of other architects or historical legacies from both European high culture and Danish vernacular traditions. The book also explains how many of his projects were linked to a national-liberal agenda that coincided with the advent of democracy in the revolutionary year of 1848.
The publication is the story of a life’s work and societal developments seen and explained through architecture. With completely new photographs by Jens Lindhe.