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KAY FISKER
Kay Fisker (1893-1965) was a Danish architect, designer and
writer. When he was 22, he collaborated with Aage Rafn in
the competition for the design of the railway stations on
the island of Bornholm. The project was a brilliant artistic
paraphrase of local architectural tradition, liberated from
academic convention as well as provincial sentimentality.
From 1909 to 1920 he studied at the Arkitektskole of the Kunstakademi
in Copenhagen. He worked in Sweden in 191617 as a colleague
of Sigurd Lewerentz and Gunnar Asplund. From the early 1920s
he undertook a large-scale architectural practice in which
substantial projects such as state-supported housing developments
played an essential part. His large housing blocks, for example
Hornbkhus (1923), Copenhagen, were well-proportioned, traditionally
constructed multiple-bayed buildings with a minumum of classical
elements of style. For the Exposition Internationale des Arts
Dcoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris (1925), Fisker
designed the Danish pavilion in a cubism of severe brickwork.
The trend towards the refined prismatic block in smooth brickwork
was further elaborated in the unrealized project for the Danish
Students House (1928) in Paris. The breakthrough for this
all-round, easily adaptable, almost timeless architectural
form came with the first prizewinning projects from 1931 for
the University of rhus, in collaboration with C. F. Mller
and Povl Stegmann, and the municipal hospital in Aarhus. |
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