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Gottlieb Bindesbøll

其他書名	Denmark's First Modern Architect
出版	Danish Architectural Press, 2013
ISBN	87740740759788774074076
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PEskmwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Gottlieb Bindesbøll (1800-1856) was not just Denmark's first modern architect. He was also one of the best. Still, no major book was ever published about his oeuvre. This omission has finally been remedied. Bindesbøll's best-known buildings are spotlighted in generous photographs - the Thorvaldsen Museum, the Danish Medical Association's Housing, and the Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University - along with equally fantastic creations such as manors, hospitals, furniture, churches, town halls, villas for the elite, sepulchral monuments, and railway stations. Peter Thule Kristensen's monograph on Gottlieb Bindesbøll is both a scholarly dissertation and the story of the architect's world and buildings, written in a fluent style that can be read by everyone. A large number of original drawings and sketches are published here for the first time together with Jens Lindhe's new photographs of all of Bindesbøll's extant work. Through Michael Jensen's graphic design, we get a fine impression of an original and contradictory artist who received his first direct intellectual influences from no less than Goethe and the renowned Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted. Sense and sensibility were united in a romantic but also incipiently humanistic and modern worldview. Bindesbøll combined sobriety and infatuation, pragmatism and pathos in a large number of innovative creations. We find ourselves in architecture's complex treasure trove of contradictions and perfect equations, sudden breaks with conventions and formulas that are necessary in order to meet the new demands of the day. This is where the author delves down and wrests entirely new significances from Bindesbøll's architecture. This narrative consequently does not center on Bindesbøll's private life; the man emerges through descriptions of how his buildings came to be, conditions he faced, and new information that has come to light. Bindesbøll was unconventional, at times unpredictable, peculiar, sometimes curiously ungainly, but masterful as a whole. He always won the best commissions and worked for the most prominent, modern clientele among the politicians and financiers that helped found the Danish welfare state. Bindesbøll designed the first buildings in this epoch of dawning democracy: housing for the poor, hospitals for the insane. He was absolutely modern at a time when all others suddenly discovered that they were hopelessly old-fashioned.