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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 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.
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