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Kay Fisker
Born(1893-02-14)14 February 1893
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Died21 June 1965(1965-06-21) (aged 72)
Copenhagen, Denmark
NationalityDanish
OccupationArchitect
AwardsC. F. Hansen Medal (1947)
Heinrich Tessenow Medal (1964)
BuildingsAarhus University

Kay Otto Fisker Hon. FAIA (14 February 1893 – 21 June 1965) was a Danish architect, designer and educator. He is mostly known for his many housing projects, mainly in the Copenhagen area, and is considered a leading exponent of Danish Functionalism.

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Kay Fisker

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Kay Otto Fisker Hon. FAIA (14 February 1893 – 21 June 1965) was a Danish architect, designer and educator. He is mostly known for his many housing projects...

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Aarhus University

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buildings and 12 ha campus area was assigned to architects C. F. Møller, Kay Fisker and Povl Stegmann, who won the architectural competition in 1931. Construction...

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Povl Stegmann

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architect remembered for designing Aarhus University in collaboration with Kay Fisker and C. F. Møller. His name is included in the Danish Culture Canon. Born...

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Ansgar Church

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island of Als. It was designed by the architect Kay Fisker, who died before construction began. After Fisker's death, the project was completed by architects...

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Aarhus

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University, especially the main building completed in 1932, designed by Kay Fisker, Povl Stegmann and by C.F. Møller have gained an international reputation...

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Arne Jacobsen

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Danish Academy of Fine Arts where from 1924 to 1927 he studied under Kay Fisker and Kaj Gottlob, both leading architects and designers. Still a student...

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1965 in architecture

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Burman, Ukrainian-Estonian architect and painter (born 1882) June 21 – Kay Fisker, Danish architect, designer and educator (born 1893) August 6 – Donald...

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Nordic Classicism

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were Swedish architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. Denmark: Kay Fisker, Hack Kampmann, Kaj Gottlob, Ivar Bentsen, Povl Baumann, Poul Holsøe,...

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Architecture of Denmark

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thrive at the beginning of the century until about 1930 as can be seen in Kay Fisker's Hornbækhus apartment buildings (1923) and Hack Kampmann's police headquarters...

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Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects

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FAIA 1992 Johannes Exner, Hon. FAIA 1992 Tobias Faber, Hon. FAIA 1987 Kay Fisker, Hon. FAIA 1955 Knud Friis, Hon. FAIA 1983 Jan Gehl, Hon. FAIA 2008 Fleming...

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Stefansgade

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designed by Kay Fisker. Stefansgården, the housing estate that replaced the Fafnia Brewert's buildings in 1944, was also designed by Fisker. The Nørrebros...

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Prince Eugen Medal

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Hedqvist, Alvar Aalto (Finland) 1956 Sven Ivar Lind 1957 Hakon Ahlberg 1958 Kay Fisker (Denmark) 1959 Melchior Wernstedt 1960 Arnstein Arneberg (Norway) 1961...

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Heinrich Tessenow Medal

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2006, the medal was awarded annually. 1963: Franz Schuster, Vienna 1964: Kay Fisker, Copenhagen 1965: Otto Dellemann [de], Hanover 1966: Heinrich Rettig [de]...

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Aage Rafn

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the academy's great gold medal in 1921. Already as students, Rafn and Kay Fisker won 2nd prize in am architectural competition to design the stations on...

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Demetri Porphyrios

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prevailed in early 20th-century Scandinavia in the work of architects such as Kay Fisker in Denmark, Gunnar Asplund in Sweden, and in the early work of Alvar Aalto...

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International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts

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Victor Bourgeois, the decorator Leon Sneyers. The pavilion of Denmark, by Kay Fisker, was a striking block of red and white bricks, making a Danish cross....

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Aarhus Municipal Hospital

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a department of tuberculosis was established. In 1931 C.F. Møller and Kay Fisker won an architectural contest for the design of an expansion of the hospital...

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Poul Henningsen

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Strøyberg) in Copenhagen. He entered into collaboration with the architect Kay Fisker in 1919. From 1920, Henningsen freelanced as an architect and designer...

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List of architects

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Theodor Fischer (1862–1938), Germany Harold H. Fisher (1901–2005), US Kay Fisker (1893–1965), Denmark O'Neil Ford (1905–1982), US Mohammad Foyez Ullah...

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Strandboulevarden

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opened in 1921. The complex was later expanded by Kay Fisker and C. F. Møller in 1937. Kay Fisker also designed Mødrehjælpen's building at No. 6. It...

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1893 in Denmark

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1973) 5 February – Alsing Andersen, politician (died 1962) 14 February – Kay Fisker, architect (died 1965) 21 March – Emil Bønnelycke, poet (died 1953) 26...

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1893 in architecture

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de Rome, architecture: François-Benjamin Chaussemiche. February 14 – Kay Fisker, Danish architect, designer and educator (died 1965) February 28 – Ivan...

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