Kay Fisker

Danish Functionalism and Block-based Housing

Andrew Clancy, Colm Moore

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English

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
01 September 2022

Individual architects & architectural firms; Residential buildings, domestic buildings

This book focuses on Kay Fisker (1893-1965)’s housing estates in Copenhagen. A leading exponent of Danish Functionalism, Fisker was influenced by Louis Sullivan, and 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 and beautifully considered 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 Copenhagen: 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. Essays by Martin Søberg, Poul Sverrild and Job Floris set Fisker’s work within their historical, social and architectural context. In the final section, architects from three leading contemporary practices – Clancy Moore, Monadnock and Tony Fretton - discuss how Kay Fisker has influenced their own approaches and work.

By: Andrew Clancy, Colm Moore
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 297mm, Width: 297mm,
ISBN: 9781848224056
ISBN 10: 1848224052
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Kay Fisker and the Conditions of Life by Andrew Clancy & Colm Moore. 1: Kay Fisker’s Principles for Modern Housing by Martin Soberg Essay. 2: An Outline of Danish Social Housing History by Poul Sverrild. 3: Dronningegården and Kay Fisker’s Continuum by Job Floris. Building Studies: Hornbækhus - The Block; Vestersøhus - The Terrace; Dronningegården - The Square. Response 1: Between familiarity and Abstraction by Tony Fretton. Response 2: Two Tone by Job Floris. Response 3: Conversation and the Contingent by Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore. Coda: The Moral of Functionalism by Kay Fisker

Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore were both educated at University College Dublin and completed PhDs by Practice with RMIT. In 2008 they established Clancy Moore Architects which has been acknowledged in domestic and international awards, publications, lectures and exhibitions. Andrew Clancy has been Professor of Architecture at the Kingston School of Art London since 2016. Colm Moore is currently a senior lecturer at Queens University Belfast, where he co-ordinates the M.Arch programme.

Reviews for Kay Fisker: Danish Functionalism and Block-based Housing

'This very thorough set of surveys encapsulated the many scales of address of the projects, from the urban figure to those building elements that would be used and touched by residents every day.' – Drawing Matter ‘should be compulsory reading on every architecture course’ – Matthew Wickens, *Building Design *