GUIDE TO DANISH ARCHITECTURE VOLUME 1+2. 1000-1995

Author: Sestoft, Jørgen, Jørgen Hegner Christiansen, and Kim Dirkinck-Holmfield
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 1995
No. of pages: 662
Illustrations: 1657 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 10”x 6”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 8774071572
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index.
Code: 2065

Price: $135.00

These guide books give an extensive picture of Danish architecture from the year 1000 to the present day. Volume 1 ends when industrial building came to the fore in 1960, when architecture changed radically. The guide is a chronological representation of about 300 individual works, which are illustrated by over 700 illustrations. Professor Jørgen Sestots’s introduction gives a concise overview of the immense period from the castles of the Vikings to modernism. Volume 2 describes works after 1960 and includes about 330 houses with almost 1,000 illustrations. The guide is divided into 3 periods and takes as its subject categories of building whose function dictates special planning and expression. Developments in Danish architecture from the postwar period to today are examined in the introduction. In all, the two volumes comprise 650 pages and give the largest presentation of Danish architecture in the last 15 years. The guides are supplemented with a comprehensive index and eight maps which mean that the books may also be used as travel-guides.