Arkitekter og arkitektfirmaer

I 2018 ville den verdenskendte arkitekt Jørn Utzon være fyldt 100 år, og det markerer Strandberg Publishing med en smuk og nytænkende bog henvendt til børn om den store danske kulturpersonlighed. Med Jørn Utzon som guide inviteres børn – og deres forældre – til at gå på opdagelse i arkitektens legende og eksperimenterende univers og til selv at prøve kræfter med at formgive og bygge. Jørn Utzon er et oplagt valg som guide for børn ind i arkitekturens verden, fordi hans arbejdsmetode minder så meget om børns tilgang til verden og deres måde at opleve og tilegne sig erfaringer på: åbenhed over for nye og på papiret tilsyneladende umulige idéer, udforskning og eksperimenterne og ikke mindst nysgerrighed. Gennem 15 udvalgte værker formidles arkitekturen og dens fagtermer og redskaber samt Utzons inspirationskilder. Til hvert kapitel er knyttet letforståelige vejledninger til bygge- og konstruktionsopgaver, som børnene enten alene eller sammen med deres forældre kan bruge til at udforske Utzons univers med.

Lauritz de Thurah (1706-1759) var en af Danmarks mest betydningsfulde arkitekter i barokken. Han står bag flere markante bygningsværker, heriblandt Eremitageslottet, Det Gule Palæ i Roskilde, Gammel Holtegaard og Vor Frelsers Kirkes spir samt om- og tilbygninger af f.eks. Ledreborg, Frederiksborg Slot, Børglum Kloster og det nu nedrevne sommerslot Hirschholm – også kaldet Nordens Versailles.Monografiens omdrejningspunkt er arkitekt, dr.phil. Peter Thule Kristensens præsentation af Thurahs sansemættede og sammensatte arkitektur. De øvrige kapitler, skrevet af fageksperterne Else Marie Bukdahl, Martin Søberg, Thomas Lyngby, Natalie Patricia Körner, Sanne Maekelberg og Nina Ventzel Riis, beskriver Thurahs rolle som toneangivende arkitekturhistoriker, topograf, embedsmand, militærmand og en fornyer af arkitekturopfattelsen i enevældens Danmark. Bogens talrige nye fotos er optaget af Anders Sune Berg.Bogen belyser barokken i bredere forstand ved at beskæftige sig med epokens hofkultur, havekunst og kirkearkitektur. Endelig fortælles om bygningernes brug i dag, hvor de danner ramme om en ny tids brugere og behov.

Sommerlandets arkitektur. Drømmen om det gode liv handler om sommerarkitekturens historie fra Frederik 2.s lille lystslot Lundehave ved Kronborg til årtusindskiftets primitive overnatningssteder i naturen. Udviklingen afspejler forskellige perioders og samfundsgruppers forestillinger om "det gode liv". Bogen undersøger deres baggrund og formidling i debatter, bøger og tidsskrifter. Den uddyber den historiske udvikling i forskellige dele af landet og dokumenterer de mange typer af bygninger og bebyggelser - fra landsteder, sommervillaer og typehuse til feriebyer, kolonihaver og campingpladser. I sommerlandet findes væsentlig kulturarv.Den øgede fritid har skabt nye bebyggelser og landskaber. Her er der historisk og nutidigt opstået anderledes livsformer med friere kropskultur i mere naturlige omgivelser. Som en form for nære utopier er der muligheder for at nærme sig det gode liv, om ikke hele livet, så dog i ”den frie tid” om sommeren. Sommerlivet kan føre til gentagelse af hverdagen, men det kan også opleves som frirum for sociale, arkitektoniske og indretningsmæssige eksperimenter, som kan pege frem mod mere uformelle livsformer og en lettere og lysere boligkultur og større bæredygtighed.Margrethe Floryan skriver om 1700-tallets forfinede salonkultur på Sophienholm og andre landsteder og Peter Thule Kristensen om borgerskabets både rekreative og sundhedsorienterede ferieformer i Cottageparken ved Klampenborg fra midten af 1800-tallet. Nan Dahlkild uddyber den fortsatte udvikling af borgerskabets landliggerkultur med store farverige sommervillaer og hoteller omkring 1900, der blev efterfulgt af demokratisering af friluftslivet i form af kolonihaver, vandrebevægelse og Dansk Folkeferies feriebyer. Vibeke Andersson Møller fokuserer på modernismens feriehuse. Efter 2. Verdenskrig har sommerlandet fået sine egne typefritidshuse og sommerlige parcelhuskvarterer, som beskrives af Jørgen Hegner Christiansen og Nan Dahlkild.Flemming Skude formidler årtusindskiftets arkitektoniske eksperimenter.Bogen og udstillingen Sommerlandets arkitektur. Drømmen om det gode liv er realiseret med støtte fra: A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene FormaalBergiafondenKøbenhavns UniversitetRealdaniaTømmerhandler Johannes Fogs FondAage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond.

Bogen er skrevet af den kendte arkitekt og kritiker Christoffer Harlang og beskriver Nils Fagerholts (f. 1933) bidrag til dansk arkitektur og design fra omkring 1960 til 2005. Niels Fagerholt er ikke blandt de mest kendte designere og arkitekter i Danmark, men en lang række prisbelønnede mesterværker har placeret ham blandt eliten inden for dansk design.Præcision, poesi og mådehold er nøglebegreber i Fagerholts arbejde, og hans sans for stil og rum vil gøre bogen til en aha-oplevelse for dens læsere.Alt materiale i bogen bærer præg af Fagerholts egne krav til kvalitet og viser en formgivningsevne, der er usædvanlig i sine strenge krav til proportionering og materialeæstetik.Bogen præsenterer med ledsagelse af Christoffer Harlangs anerkendende pen, en række originale tegninger udført af Fagerholt suppleret med gengivelse af samtidige farve- og sort-hvid-optagelser af udførte og byggede værker.

I den danske arkitekturhistorie er Kay Fisker (1893-1965) ikke til at komme uden om. Han har både været med til at forme dansk boligarkitektur og velfærdsbyggeri og har gjort os bevidste om, at bygninger skal være i dialog med deres omgivelser.Gennem sit virke byggede Kay Fisker bro mellem traditionerne og det moderne: I sin studietid på Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole var han påvirket både af nationalromantik og nyklassicisme, og senere var han med til at definere den funktionelle tradition i den gryende velfærdsstat. I stedet for revolution var han fortaler for evolution – at arkitekturen skulle udvikle sig gennem en tilpasning til samfundets ønsker og behov, både de funktionelle og de æstetiske.Hans markante murstensbyggerier er stilfærdige og enkle, men på samme tid banebrydende. Det er denne særlige kombination, der gør Kay Fisker til en emblematisk dansk arkitekt.I bogen dykker Martin Søberg ned i Kay Fiskers værker, fra tidlige stationsbygninger på Bornholm over monumentale karrébygninger som Vestersøhus og Dronningegården, sundhedsbyggerier og uddannelsesinstitutioner som Aarhus Universitet og til sidst Det Danske Institut i Rom. Bogen er rigt illustreret med et stort udvalg af originale tegninger og nyoptagne fotografier af Anders Sune Berg.Martin Søberg er mag.art. i kunsthistorie og ph.d. i arkitektur. Han er lektor ved Institut for Bygningskunst og Kultur på Det Kongelige Akademi – Arkitektur, Design, Konservering, hvor han forsker og underviser.

Lauritz de Thurah (1706–1759) was one of Denmark’s most significant architects of the Baroque period. He created several important buildings, including the Hermitage Hunting Lodge, the Royal Palace in Roskilde, Gammel Holtegaard and the famous spire of the Church of Our Saviour in Copenhagen, and masterminded conversions and extensions of properties such as Ledreborg, Frederiksborg Castle, Børglum Kloster and the now demolished summer residence Hirschholm Palace – widely known as the Versailles of the North.The mainstay of this monograph is architect dr.phil. Peter Thule Kristensen’s presentation of Thurah’s rich and complex architecture. The other chapters, written by experts Else Marie Bukdahl, Martin Søberg, Thomas Lyngby, Natalie Patricia Körner, Sanne Maekelberg and Nina Ventzel Riis, describe Thurah’s roles as a leading architectural historian, topographer, grand tour traveller, civil servant, military man and trailblazer within the new social structure in Denmark under absolute rule.The book also sheds light on the Baroque period in a broader sense, delving into the era’s court culture, garden design and church architecture. Finally, the afterlife of Thurah’s works is addressed: how do his buildings function in our present day, having been adapted to the needs and users of a new era?

What is required to renew and articulate public spaces? The need for, and demands of, public spaces are highly specific to the local spatial and social conditions under which people live. Action at neighborhood level is crucial, and must involve interacting and co-creating with residents to discover their needs. At the start of the pandemic, superwien was commissioned to develop innovative designs for urban public spaces in three different cities: Dhaka (Bangladesh), Maputo (Mozambique), and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic). The main objective of this applied research was to strengthen the capacity of local governments to undertake participatory urban design processes. This book calls upon architects and urbanists to develop place-based solutions in challenging circumstances.

DIALOG MED SAMTIDEN er det første samlede værk om arkitekten Martin Nyrop (1849-1921). Nyrop er især kendt for at have tegnet Københavns Rådhus, men han arbejdede med alle arkitekturens genrer, fra slotte, hospitaler og kirker til skoler, villaer, husmandshuse og pladser, og desuden alle former for inventar.Nyrops tanker om inddragelse af natur i byen, brug af danske materialer, lysets betydning, byggeri med hensyn til miljøet og genbrug er også i dag yderst aktuelle. Bogen er rigt illustreret med tegninger og fotos, hvoraf en stor del er nye optagelser, bl.a. af ikke tidligere publicerede bygningsværker.Dr.phil. Mirjam Gelfer-Jørgensen har været lektor ved Københavns Universitet, overbibliotekar og souschef på Kunstindustrimuseet, nu Danmarks Designmuseum, og er medlem af Videnskabernes Selskab. Hun har udgivet talrige bøger og artikler om dansk kunsthåndværk, design og arkitektur, bl.a. Japanisme på dansk. Kunst og design 1870-2010, Thorvald Bindesbøll – stærk form og frit spil og senest Kunstarternes forbrødring. Skønvirke – en kalejdoskopisk periode.

"An elegant presentation of interiors for introverts, placing the memorable work of London architect William Smalley alongside buildings around the world that have inspired his practice. Quiet Spaces places the work of architect William Smalley alongside spaces that have inspired him. Places of private contemplation - calm spaces to read a book or listen to music in, to walk through or simply be in - they are spaces that achieve a rare sense of repose and peace. From his own Bloomsbury Apartment and projects in the UK, France and New York, the book expands to include the work of other architects: a sixteenth-century villa by Palladio, houses in Mexico and Sri Lanka and the Secular Retreat in Devon by Swiss master architect Peter Zumthor. There are also places of making and displaying art: simplicity in Barbara Hepworth's garden and studio in Cornwall, and intimacy in Kettle's Yard gallery in Cambridge. Specially commissioned photography by Harry Crowder conveys the atmosphere of the spaces. A foreword by acclaimed potter and writer Edmund de Waal records the small, unspoken ways in which we relate to buildings and how they come to have meaning for us"--Publisher's description.

"'I was a writer, but not the writer I needed to be. For that I had to become a different person,' Robert Glèuck, widely acclaimed as a novelist and as a theorist of 'the new narrative,' recently told the Paris Review, in which a section of About Ed has appeared. About Ed is Glèuck's portrait of the artist Ed Aulerich-Sugai, his sometime lover, met in the seventies in San Francisco, when gay life emerged unabashedly from the closet. 'I wanted to find in Ed something to latch on to that was outside my egotism and fear, my threadbare relation to the world-a leap through Ed into lyric time,' Glèuck has said, and in this book that is both 'a novel and my version of an AIDS memoir' he wanted to capture the full range of his feelings for Ed: 'estranged from Ed, bored by him, moved by him.' It is a book about the life they lived together-art and writing and family and sex and death-and, composed over many decades, it is also a book about how the past continues to change in memory and to charge the present. 'What is the right question to ask about a life?' Glèuck asks, describing About Ed as a 'collaborative project,' since 'Ed helped me write this book.' Ed gave him 'notes to fashion a chapter about the day he was diagnosed so I could describe his experience from the inside,' and 'after Ed died, Daniel, Ed's partner, lent me Ed's dream journals.... He started writing them in 1970, the year that we met. We both used his journals, not as puzzles to solve the truth of a self but as a commons producing images that we harvested for paintings and poems. And fifty years later, there I was reading and copying out and running away from his dreams. Are they a condensed version of Ed? Shorthand? Distillation? Is he knowable and unknowable in the same degree sleeping or waking?' About Ed is a challenging and beautiful book by one of America's finest and most adventurous writers"

Philip Guston paintings?particularly the liberated and instinctual forms of his late work?continue to exert a powerful influence on younger generations of contemporary painters. His daughter, Musa Mayer, manages the estate of Philip Guston and is president of The Guston Foundation. She has curated exhibitions of Guston's work and written books including the memoir Night Studio, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988. In 2022 the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that more than two hundred Guston works from her collection would be gifted to the museum.

What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge.With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, who had to choose between her motherhood and herself; Ursula K. Le Guin, who found productive stability in family life; Audre Lorde, whose queer, polyamorous union allowed her to raise children on her own terms and Alice Neel, who once, to finish a painting, was said to have left her baby on the fire escape of her New York apartment. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, The Baby on the Fire Escape illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives.

Despite being one of the oldest building materials, wood is revolutionizing the way we design and construct buildings today. Criteria such as a changing work-life balance and working for a carbon-neutral future allow us to better account for the resources that buildings use and their effect on the natural environment. Studies have also shown the positive impacts of wood on health, wellness, and working toward equity in our local communities as we create beautiful spaces in which to gather, learn, and live. Featured in this book is a comprehensive survey of more than fifty buildings showcasing novel applications for this most ancient of building materials. Museum projects, corporate headquarters, resorts, residences, and temporary shelters for both natural and man-made disasters display the state of the art in wood construction, especially the emerging technology of mass timber, a fireproof composite material. Featured projects include the headquarters of Swatch and Omega, as well as the Aspen Museum, the Pompidou Metz, the Mount Fuji World Heritage Center, La Seine Musicale Performance Hall in Paris, the Oita Prefectural Museum, and the nineteen-story Terrace House in Vancouver, the world's tallest mass timber building, scheduled for completion in 2022.

Here is an absorbing biography of the English artist Dora Carrington, who called herself simply "Carrington". She was a woman who made a vivid impression on those she met-she was portrayed (or caricatured), for example, in novels by Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, and Aldous Huxley. Hopelessly in love with the noted writer Lytton Strachey, she achieved notoriety by killing herself shortly after his death. A talented painter, living a bohemian life, Carrington was torn by conflicts as an artist and a woman, including the shrewd and inquisitive Bloomsbury group. Carrington's paintings, however, reveal much of her remarkable and original cast of mind, and since her death her reputation as an artist has grown steadily. Her work is new represented in major collections worldwide.

Arkitekten Henning Larsen (1925-2013) var gennem hele livet optaget af tegningen som redskab til skitsering og udvikling af projekter, fra små huse til universiteter så store som byer.Han tegnede altid, og havde tilmed en lille blok fæstnet til instrumentbrættet i sin bil. Tegningerne spænder fra små visuelle notater til grafiske eksperimenter, der inspirerede til nye arkitekturformer. Men kun få af de tusinder bevarede skitser har været vist i de hidtidige udgivelser om Henning Larsen.Henning Larsen talte aldrig meget, han kommunikerede ofte sine tanker til medarbejdere og bygherrer gennem tegningen. Derfor giver skitserne et både dybt og bredt indblik i hans arbejde.

Universal design offers a paradigm shift in how we understand and perceive human beings and the diversity of abilities within architecture and urban planning. The concept introduces a new approach to core aspects of architecture: sensory experiences, social sustainability, and architectural qualities and meaning. In Universal Design - On Enabling and Empowering a Diverse Population, Camilla Ryhl engages in dialogue with ten architects about their practices and understanding of universal design. The book introduces a model for applying universal design at three differing levels, providing a practical framework for creating inclusive and accessible spaces. It is an essential read for architects, designers, and anyone interested in creating spaces that harmonize with the varied abilities and experiences of all individuals.

Piet Blanckaert, one of Belgium's most important landscape architects, brings more than forty years of experience and a love of gardens to his work. Inspired by the great English landscape architects, his repertoire ranges from the walled gardens of his hometown of Bruges to magically structured landscape ensembles. With an introductory essay on his working methods, this book presents Blanckaert's gardens from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from the earliest to the most recent, captured in fantastic photographs by Jean-Pierre Gabriel in every season. PIET BLANCKAERT (*1955) is a landscape architect and has run his own independent studio, Piet Blanckaert Landscape Design, in Bruges since 1979. His commissions include private gardens, the design of open spaces around hotels and industrial facilities, as well as sculpture gardens in Belgium, France, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Greece.

The architectural work of Hans and Wassili Luckhardt (1890-1954/1889-1972) is not yet adequately appreciated. As members of the Glass Chain initiative and the Ring collective, they shaped, especially through their work with Alfons Anker, the development of Modernist architecture in the 1920s, as evidenced by their winning design for the layout of Berlin's Alexanderplatz. While their early work was anchored in utopian expressionism, a more objective attitude emerged later, based on the application of new architectural constructs.The book documents all 40 of Hans und Wassili Luckhardt's realized buildings. Two essays deal with the unbuilt and utopian projects. Newly taken photographs and newly drawn plans by Carsten Krohn complement the historical illustrations. Comprehensive documentation of the work of Hans and Wassili Luckhardt. With approx. 80 new photographs and 80 newly drawn plans by Carsten Krohn

Das Werk der Architekten Hans und Wassili Luckhardt (1890-1954/1889-1972) wurde bis heute nicht angemessen gewürdigt. Deren Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der Architektur zeigt sich schon daran, dass die Architekten Bestandteil der der wichtigsten Überblickswerke über die Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts sind, etwa bei Giedion, Benevolo, Tafuri, Frampton und Curtis. Sie waren u.a. Mitglieder der Gläsernen Kette und prägten maßgeblich die Architektur der 1920er bis 1960er Jahre.Die Luckhardts betrieben in den 1920er Jahren in Berlin ein Architekturbüro zusammen mit Alfons Anker, der aufgrund seiner jüdischen Herkunft nach Schweden emigrierte. Das Werk ist aus heutiger Perspektive als ein kollektives Werk relevant, da sich die unterschiedlichen Temperamente der Protagonisten in einem Facettenreichtum zeigen, der von utopischen "Formphantasien" bis zu baukonstruktiven Experimenten, von der Möbelgestaltung bis zum Städtebau sowie innovativer Werbearchitektur reicht. Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg gehörten sie zum engen Kreis des utopischen Expressionismus, in dessen Geist neben zahlreichen Bauten auch einige spektakuläre Entwürfe entstanden (bspw. für das Deutsche Hygiene-Museum in Dresden von 1920 oder aber für ein Volkstheater von 1921).Das Buch dokumentiert sämtliche 40 realisierten Bauten der Brüder Luckhardt, vornehmlich in Berlin, aber auch in Brandenburg, München, Hannover, Bremen und Rom. Zwei Essays setzen sich u.a. mit den ungebauten und utopischen Projekten auseinander. Umfassende Dokumentation des Werkes von Hans und Wassili Luckhardt Mit ca. 80 neuen Fotografien und 80 neu gezeichneten Plänen Carsten Krohns Das Buch erscheint auch in englischer Sprache

Halldor Gunnløgsson var aldrig i tvivl: arkitektur er en kunstart. Det fastholdt han gennem hele karrieren også under ungdomsoprøret, der affejede ”kunst” som borgerlig dekadence. Han forsøgte oven købet i at indkredse, hvad han kaldte ”arkitektonisk tænkning” – velvidende, at verbalsproget ikke kan omspænde kunsten eller ”det uhåndgribelige”. Hovedværker er Tårnby- og Fredericia rådhuse, hans eget hus i Rungsted, der blev verdensberømt, Uglegårdsskolen, "Danmarks bedste skole" m.fl. Han var det skarpeste intellekt blandt datidens arkitekter og forkæmper for bygningskunsten, som han mente, at arkitekterne selv havde svigtet. Bogen viser Gunnløgssons omfattende livsværk som sin tids mest vindende deltager i arkitektkonkurrencer, som udøvende arkitekt, lærer og debattør. Hans værker og tænkning har stadig bud til en forvirret tid.

Unmarked on maps and largely unnoticed by urban design, architecture, and planning communities, Combat Cities have quietly spread throughout the western hemisphere. The Complete Guide to Combat City is an architectural and cultural guide of these simulated cities, exclusively developed by the military. Seventeen existing, fully functioning urban combat centers in the US, Europe and the Middle East have been reconstructed from existing video footage, satellite images, military photographs, and army supplier's catalogs. Julia Schulz-Dornburg analyzes their features, be they fictional or real, and presents them with commentary, illustrations, and classifications. The book combines different urban portraits to create a comprehensive overview and architectural database of contemporary mock-cities. A comprehensive selection of seventeen urban combat centers in the US, Europe and the Middle East The first in-depth analysis of a clandestine architectural subject