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Lund, Robert Søren : ARKEN - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. At Ishøj, Denmark
Author: Møller, Henrik Sten
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: No year
No. of pages: 16
Illustrations: 37 Color Illustrations. 4 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 12”x 9”
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: None
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 4230
Price: $21.50
The Museum of Modern Art, Arken (The Ark) was built in response to a 1988 architectural competition, but was completed in 1996, as part of Copenhagen’s new architectural efforts as the European Cultural Capital. In its atypical coastal landscape, the museum building appears as a metaphor for a stranded ship. The main features of the museum are activity, movement and the spatial experience. The curved spatial sequences, with lines pointing towards the beach, decisive building touches like bridges and axes, dragons and bowsprits and enormous gutters all stretch out into the landscape towards harbors, bays and the sea beyond.
LYSENE OVER KØBENHAVN / THE LIGHTS OF COPENHAGEN. Hovedstadens Lysreklamer 1898-1994 (The Neon Lights of the Capital of Denmark 1898-1994)
Author: Anker Jesper Nielsen
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish/English summary
Year Published: 1994
No. of pages: 176
Illustrations: 63 Color Illustrations. 159 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 11 1/2”x9 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 8721001995
Biblio/Bio: Index.
Code: 1594
Price: $99.50
Here are neon and other signs, from the turn of the century to the present, in a variety of forms for a variety of purposes: advertising, decoration, instruction. This is a fascinating look at the way in which illumination affects the character and mood of a great city.
MADE IN NORWAY Norwegian Architecture Today.
Author: Almaas, Ingerid Helsing ed
Country: Norway
Language: English
Year Published: 2010
No. of pages: 143
Illustrations: 135 Color Illustrations. 41 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 12”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9783034605595
Biblio/Bio: Index.
Code: 6492
Price: $125.00
Norwegian architecture has received a lot of international attention in recent years. This is the first publication that presents a selection of the best of these projects in one book, demonstrating Norwegian architects' responses to a variety of different situations, both natural and urban. The natural landscape is a strong influence in many of these building projects, and elegant and sensitive proposals drawing on a close relationship with nature has been one of the hallmarks of Norwegian architecture. But the increasing urbanization of the country has also required a similar sensitivity in the response to urban situations, as demonstrated by projects like the Oslo Opera by Snöhetta or the recent urban projects by Sverre Fehn. The book is based on building presentations from Arkitektur N, the Norwegian Review of Architecture, but also contains unpublished material, such as interviews with some of today's central practitioners including Snöhetta and the late Sverre Fehn, and essays discussing some of the main challenges of Norwegian architecture today.
MAGT OG DRAGT (Power and Appearance). Dansk Teglstensarkitektur (Danish Brick Architecture)
Author: Nørregård-Nielsen, Hans Edvard. Photographs by Janne Klerk
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Year Published: 2006
No. of pages: 384
Illustrations: 205 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 9” x 10”
Weight: 5.00
ISBN: 8702029774
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5995
Price: $105.00
A magnificient book on red brick architecture and the culture and history behind these “monuments” from churches, old fortresses, castles etc. from most of Denmark’s most far-reaching provinces.
MANFREO VILJALMSSON, ARKITEKT.
Author: Arnardóttir , Halldóra & Pétur H. Ármannsson eds Photography by Gudmundur Ingólfsson.
Country: Iceland
Language: icelandic / English
Year Published: 2009
No. of pages: 183
Illustrations: 65 Color Illustrations. 199 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 11”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9789979662495
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio.
Code: 6812
Price: $49.50
This book on Manfred Vilhjálmsson’s (b.1928) architecture and design work is the first book of its kind in Iceland. Edited by Halldóra Arnardóttir and Pétur H. Ármannsson, they offer an comprehensive text on the architect’s work in the context of the environment; nature, city and dwellings, as well as a list of builidings with thorough technical description. Adalsteinn Ingólfsson contributes an essay on the architect´s creative work in the field of design. Introduction and afterword are two of Vilhjálmsson´s personal friends, former President of Iceland, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, and former newspaper editor, Styrmir Gunnarsson. During a career of over 50 years, his architecture has gained great respect combining Icelandic context and building methods and ideas from abroad. He has worked on a wide range of projects that include urban planning, public edifices, detached houses, furniture and exhibitions designs. His architecture is rooted in the known, and creates a setting for new living conditions for the present as well as participtes in the evolution of society. The feeling for the place which it reflects is not however always visible, something is inherent in the atmosphere.