{"product_id":"kay-fisker-copenhagen-housing-types-1936-row-house-types-1941","title":"Kay Fisker: Copenhagen Housing Types (1936), Row-House Types (1941)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKay Fisker: Copenhagen Housing Types (1936), Row-House Types (1941)\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKay 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst English translations of \u003cem\u003eKøbenhavnske boligtyper\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRækkehusetyper\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFacsimile reproduction that preserves the original layout and the complementary relationship between the two studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtensive comparative plans and analytical diagrams of Copenhagen housing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCritical introduction by Luca Ortelli and an extended essay by Chiara Monterumisi on Fisker's typological investigations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Fisker and his students classified apartment blocks and row houses into comparable types\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe relationship between Fisker's teaching and his own housing complexes in Copenhagen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe pedagogical culture of the Royal Danish Academy's school of architecture in the interwar years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy typological analysis remains a useful instrument for housing design and for understanding how cities evolve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKay 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e TO CONFIRM\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210 × 297 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9782889154418\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e EPFL Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For:\u003c\/strong\u003e Architects, students and researchers working on housing, typology and Scandinavian modernism, and anyone interested in how careful comparative drawing can explain a city.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EPFL Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49193932914913,"sku":"9782889154418","price":74.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9782889154418.jpg?v=1790138929","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/kay-fisker-copenhagen-housing-types-1936-row-house-types-1941","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}