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In his writings, Fisker argued in favour of an anonymous and timeless architecture, not fashionable individual achievements. In the 1964 article "Personal Worship or Anonymity", Fisker emphasized the importance of our surroundings being characterized by a whole - as opposed to simply consisting of a
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From 1936 to 1963 Fisker was a professor at the Royal Academy and as teacher of the school's class on housing he was known as an inspiring lecturer with great influence on Danish housing culture. In 1953 and 1957 he was a visiting professor at the
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parallel to his studies. In 1915, in collaboration with Aage Rafn, he won a competition to design the railway stations along the Almindingen-Gudhjem railway on the Danish island of
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After graduating, his career as a practising architect was dominated by numerous influential residential projects. Vestersøhus was built from 1935 to 1939 by Fisker and
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number of individual, sensational works. According to Fisker, architecture should be a framework for a 'natural' way of life, not an end in itself.
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in 1909 and while there worked at the offices of leading Scandinavian architects such as Anthon Rosen,
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architect, designer and educator. He is mostly known for his many housing projects, mainly in the
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Luca Ortelli, ‘’ Kay Fisker, architetto danese / Kay Fisker, Danish architect
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Haus Fisker apartment block in Berlin (1957). Typical modernist elements.
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The multi-storey bays and windows are typical of the Nordic
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Honorary Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
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HornbĂŚkhus (1923). Large apartment blocks in brick.
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housing, Copenhagen (with Eske Kristensen, 1943–58)
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Frederiksberg
Denmark
Copenhagen
Danish
C. F. Hansen Medal
Heinrich Tessenow Medal
Aarhus University
Hon. FAIA
Danish
Copenhagen
Danish Functionalism
Frederiksberg
Copenhagen
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Sigurd Lewerentz
Gunnar Asplund
Hack Kampmann
Bornholm
C. F. Møller
Aarhus University
C. F. Møller
Povl Stegmann
Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bornholm
Århus University
Århus
C. F. Møller
DronningegĂĽrden

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