Martin Søberg – författare

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.

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.

The Artful Plan erkundet die Potenziale der Architekturzeichnung in einem Moment, da ihre konventionelle Funktion der Darstellung zunehmend von digitalen Systemen übernommen wird. Was können Architekturzeichnungen heute sein? Welche Möglichkeiten bergen sie für das kreative Arbeiten? Welche neuen Wege eröffnen sie, um Wissen und Methoden aus den Künsten, der Forschung und der aktuellen Praxis für den Entwurfsprozess zu erschließen? The Artful Plan stellt alternative Innovationen in drei Teilen dar: Neueinschätzung der konventionellen Methoden, Aufnahme und Verarbeitung des Digitalen sowie das erweiterte Feld des architektonischen Zeichnens heute. Die Beiträge aus Theorie und Praxis, Architektur und Kunst erläutern dies anhand zahlreicher Zeichnungen, die selbst eindrucksvolle Beispiele für „Artful Plans" sind.