Abstract Providing sufficient housing for an increasing urban population was a significant challenge to modern architects. In Copenhagen, the Danish architect Kay Fisker (1893–1965) designed a number of estates during the 1920s, which allowed him to explore the possibilities of large-scale mass housing through variations on the typology of the perimeter block. Hornbækhus (1920–23) is …
Abstract 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 …
Abstract Improving the comfort conditions of small city centres it’s possible to rise their liveability and their opportunities of use. The study we propose illustrates a methodology for achieving a double objective: identifying environmental problems and challenges of the urban context and defining an appropriate plan of actions for its sustainable use. Case study of …
Abstract The design process for the revitalization of historical city centers nowdays has to follow sustainable criteria and comfort objectives in order to rise the liveability and the opportunity of use of the built heritage. The study we propose illustrates a methodology for achiving the energy efficiency from a multilevel perspective, identifying three different dimensions …
Abstract The definition of new models of use for small towns is built on the improvement of the socio-economic conditions and the strengthening of the sense of identity that links the population to the physical scenario. The integrated strategy of revitalization of the historical centers is based on the construction of a cognitive framework, preliminary …
Abstract The idea of cities as complex systems in constant adaptive change is finally engaging urban thinking. Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation. However, this idea has still not been fully integrated into practice. Promoting sustainability and active solutions to climate change, …
Abstract This article discusses some approaches in the Urbanism teaching. Three categories of analysis are treated: the landscape reading, associated with urbanization processes; socio-spatial segregation, approaching the intricate space-society relationship; and the neighborhood as a possibility of urban design articulated at the scale of the urban plan. The concept of urbanism adopted recognizes an interdisciplinary …
Abstract This paper intends to identify the presence of the architecture and urbanism in Latin America between 1945 and 1958 through the view of the important French review L’Architeture d’aujourd’hui which disseminated the ideas about modernism. Thus, this article intends to reveal how Latin America was seen, by the “foreign view”, and how its differences …
Abstract Modern Movement of 1920s and 1930s aimed to reinvent architecture and art. In Greece, it was manifested in Athenian apartment buildings, small suburban residencies, and public buildings such as schools and hospitals. The book reveals unknown aspects and further investigates the Modern Greek Architecture aiming to rethink ways of heritage management and address current …
Abstract The ‘formal/spontaneous’ pair are not literally opposite poles. Nevertheless, in a search for the synonyms for its two constituents with architecture as a field of reference, the impression of a dipole seems to be reinforced, and shades of meaning emerge which make them jointly appropriate, as a culmination of attributes, to describe and interpret …