Kay Fisker

Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture

Martin Søberg (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark)

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
03 November 2022

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual architects & architectural firms

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture

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 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.

By: Martin Søberg (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Denmark)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350244276
ISBN 10: 1350244279
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 03 November 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martin Søberg is Associate Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Culture, Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen.