Colm Moore – författare

A guide to birdwatching sites in Portugal and offshore islands: this book shows you where to go and when to visit for the best birding experience. This guide is best used alongside your field guide - it does not include information about identifying birds.Portuguese territory goes well beyond Portugal itself; it also comprises the Atlantic archipelagos of Azores and Madeira. Considered in this light, it is a highly diverse area in ornithological terms, holding endemic bird taxa, large populations of seabirds, most of the rarest and sought-after species of southern Europe and many exciting Nearctic vagrants. Add to these prospects the natural hospitality of the Portuguese people, the mild climate, the modern infrastructure plus the excellent food and wine and it is easy to see why the country is one of the most attractive destinations in Europe for the birdwatcher.This book is a reprint (without changes) of the Prion Birdwatchers’ Guide to Portugal, the Azores & Madeira Archipelagos (2nd Edition, 2014, ISBN: 9781871104134). It is a key reference for anyone - from beginner to ornithologist - planning to visit the area with an interest in its birds. This is a site guide, not an identification guide.

This book focuses on Kay Fisker (1893-1965)’s housingestates in Copenhagen. A leading exponent of Danish Functionalism, Fisker was influencedby Louis Sullivan, and had a strong belief in continuity, putting modernism inperspective and identifying precedents. He built many large-scale housingschemes, mostly for non-profit workers' housing associations, and developedinnovative and beautifully considered high-density, low-rise block schemes,which have proven useful and influential to the growing number of contemporaryarchitects who have examined his designs.Beautifully illustrated with photographs and architecturaldrawings, this book documents and critically analyses three of Kay Fisker'sseminal housing projects in Copenhagen: Hornbaekhus (1923); Vestersohus(1935-39); and Dronningegarden (1943-58). These projects reflect how Fisker'swork contains valuable lessons for contemporary architects in economy,precision and generosity in housing design. Essays by Martin Søberg, PoulSverrild and Job Floris set Fisker’s work within their historical, socialand architectural context. In the final section, architects from three leadingcontemporary practices – Clancy Moore, Monadnock and Tony Fretton - discuss howKay Fisker has influenced their own approaches and work.

This book will be the first significant publication on the oft cited and influential Danish architect Hans Christian Hansen. Hansen was a municipal architect for the city of Copenhagen from 1934 to 1974. From a working-class background and unlucky in competitions, Hansen never established his own practice, but this did not limit his ability as an architect. He had an ability to conjure beauty from the most unlikely of projects, creating remarkable civic structures from modest briefs: electricity transformers, water treatment plants, power stations and schools.Frequently using woven motifs, he worked with cheap and robust materials to make an articulate and nuanced architecture of walls, subdued form and laconic expression. Over time, he developed his own clear language and sensibility, based on off-the-shelf materials which became more and more radical with time. His built work has become an open secret in architectural culture in the years since his retirement – proving influential on celebrated architects including Herzog de Meuron, Caruso St John and many more. The book includes essays by Professors Kersten Geers, Jonathan Sergison, Anne Beim and Marie Frier Hvejsel, Oliver Lütjens, and Thomas Padmanabhan as well as detailed architectural drawings by the students of Atelier Clancy Moore 2025 at the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, Switzerland.