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Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
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Number of pages | 232 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-350-06819-3 |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Kay Fisker
- Modernism
- Denmark
- Housing
- Welfare architecture
- Modern movement
Artistic research
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Activities
- 2 Lecture and oral contribution
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Kay Fisker
Martin Søberg (Lecturer)
29 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Kay Fisker: Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture
Martin Søberg (Lecturer)
15 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Kay Fisker: Moderne arkitektur – levende tradition
Søberg, M., 2023, København: Strandberg Publishing. 344 p.Publications: Book / Anthology / Thesis / Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Kay Fisker (1893-1965)
Søberg, M., 2023Publications: Non-textual form › Sound/Visual production (digital) › Communication
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Kay Fisker's Classical Principles for Modern Housing
Søberg, M., 2022, Kay Fisker: Danish Functionalism and Block-based Housing. Clancy, A. & Moore, C. (eds.). London: Lund Humphries, p. 18-22 5 p.Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
Projects
- 2 Finished
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SDW: Spaces of Danish Welfare
Johannessen, R., Raahauge, K. M., Lotz, K., Pedersen, M., Grønbæk, N., Petersson, D., Dedenroth Høj, L., Simpson, D., Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, M., Pagh, J. & Søberg, M.
01/02/2017 → 31/05/2022
Project: Research
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Press/Media
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Review | The architecture of Kay Fisker: ‘These titles should be compulsory reading on every architecture course’
13/10/2023
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Book review. Martin Søberg, Kay Fisker: Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture
01/11/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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