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Architecture of Denmark

Kamran Afshar Naderi · Memar 16 · Spring 1381 / 2002

Kamran Afshar Naderi believes that in order to comprehend contemporary architecture, one cannot confine its scope to international figures or rediscovered stars. There are prominent architects whose activities are limited to a particular region or country. Danish architecture is worthy of attention, though after a long delay in comparison with France, Germany, and America, and during the twentieth century it was swinging between the two poles of tradition and modernity. This struggle did not, at all, prevent such great architects as Arne Jacobsen and Jorn Utzon from entering the realm of modernism and infiltrating their influences upon it.

The author divides his study into four periods: entering into modernism, the decades of the forties and fifties and the problem of housing, the decades of the sixties and seventies, and the decades of the eighties and nineties. He paints a portrait of the prominent architects of each period and their works, tracing how Danish architecture evolved from romantic nationalism to a distinctive Nordic modernism that balanced functionality with humane design.

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