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This is the first book on the architecture of Kay Fisker (1893-1965), a leading exponent of Danish Functionalism. Influenced by Louis Sullivan, Fisker had a strong belief in continuity, putting modernism in perspective, and identifying precedents. He built many large scale housing schemes, mostly for non-profit workers' housing associations, and developed innovative, high-density, low-rise block schemes, which have proven useful and influential to the growing number of contemporary architects who have examined his designs. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings, this book documents and critically analyses three of Kay Fisker's seminal housing projects in Copehagen: Hornbaekhus (1923), Vestersohus (1935-39), and Dronningegarden (1943- 58). These projects reflect how Fisker's work contains valuable lessons for contemporary architects in economy, precision, and generosity in housing design. An introduction sets Fisker’s work within their historical, social, and architectural context. A final section includes in-depth case studies of the three award-winning contemporary architects: Tony Fretton, Clancy Moore, and Job Floris. The architects explain their projects and how these have been influenced by Fisker.

Architect-designed houses --- Architecture --- Fisker, Kay, --- Fisker, Kay --- Residentiële architectuur ; woonblokken --- Architectuur ; 1925-1940 ; Functionalisme ; Internationalisme --- Architectuur ; Denemarken ; 20ste eeuw --- 72.07 --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Mouvement moderne --- Fonctionnalisme --- Construction modulaire --- Bâtiment d'habitation collectif --- Habitat collectif --- Logement social --- Danemark

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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

Architecture and society --- History --- Fisker, Kay, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Modern [style or period] --- architects --- Fisker, Kay --- Baksteenarchitectuur --- Architectuur ; stedenbouw ; Modernisme ; Internationalisme ; functionalisme --- Woningbouw ; Denemarken ; densiteit ; laagbouw --- Administratiegebouwen; Denemarken; Kopenhagen --- Architectuur ; Denemarken ; 20ste eeuw --- 72.07 --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- architectuur, Denemarken