Kay Fisker: Copenhagen Housing Types (1936), Row-House Types (1941) brings two of the foundational typological studies of Danish modern housing into English for the first time. Both surveys are reproduced in facsimile, keeping the original page layouts, analytical diagrams and dense sheets of comparative plans intact.
About This Book
Kay Fisker was among the architects who shaped Copenhagen's interwar housing, and at the School of Architecture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts he led students through systematic surveys of how the city lived. The two studies gathered here were the result: one a catalogue of Copenhagen's apartment types, the other a close reading of the row house. Laid side by side, drawn to common conventions and annotated with critical commentary, the examples form a working method as much as a historical record.
The volume goes further than translation. Opening essays by the editors place the surveys within Fisker's own built work and within the teaching culture of the Copenhagen school, explaining why a pedagogical exercise from the 1930s and 1940s still reads as a sharp tool for anyone thinking about dwelling, density and the form of the city today.
Key Features
- First English translations of Københavnske boligtyper and Rækkehusetyper
- Facsimile reproduction that preserves the original layout and the complementary relationship between the two studies
- Extensive comparative plans and analytical diagrams of Copenhagen housing
- Critical introduction by Luca Ortelli and an extended essay by Chiara Monterumisi on Fisker's typological investigations
What You'll Discover
- How Fisker and his students classified apartment blocks and row houses into comparable types
- The relationship between Fisker's teaching and his own housing complexes in Copenhagen
- The pedagogical culture of the Royal Danish Academy's school of architecture in the interwar years
- Why typological analysis remains a useful instrument for housing design and for understanding how cities evolve
About the Author
Kay Fisker was a leading Danish modern architect whose housing complexes are a defining part of Copenhagen's built fabric, and an influential teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The volume is edited by Luca Ortelli and Chiara Monterumisi, both architects and researchers in architectural history and housing.
Specifications
- Format: TO CONFIRM
- Dimensions: 210 × 297 mm
- Pages: 216
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9782889154418
- Publisher: EPFL Press
Perfect For: Architects, students and researchers working on housing, typology and Scandinavian modernism, and anyone interested in how careful comparative drawing can explain a city.