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Walking through the campus of Aarhus University, one is immediately struck by the harmoniousness of its buildings, not only individually but also in relation to each other and the undulating landscape in which they are set. It is therefore somewhat surprising to learn that the University's principal architect often attributed their appearance to an architecture of chance. Yet what C.F. M¿ller was referring to was how, during the construction of the first building in 1932 and 1933, donated materials dictated many of the choices that later achieved template status - so that for instance, copper roofs in the early plans were replaced by what are now signature roofs of yellow tile. Issued to mark the diamond jubilee of Denmark's second university, this volume features striking photos that follow the campus buildings through their seasonal course. The chapters, with English summaries, describe the changes in not only the design of successive structures, but also in the buildings' reception. Early on, a local newspaper called M¿ller the untalented architect who is being allowed to ruin the northern part of Aarhus, while the King advised him to study the example of Danish manors. But in time, M¿ller became Denmark's most prolific architect, and the University buildings were hailed internationally as masterworks of functionalism. This handsome volume helps show why.

Faaborg Museum and the Artists' Colony presents the history of Faaborg Museum, its architecture, collection and artists to international audiences for the first time.

An exploration of the world of Arne Jacobsen, one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects and designers

This book offers a transcription and translation into modern English of a unique and spectacularly illustrated sixteenth-century manuscript on war and festival culture during the reign of the Danish King Frederik II (r.

Identifying particular cultural immune systems, notably ritual, law, and education, Sorensen argues that these actively align participants with the predominant cultural style of a social group, and regulate interaction at different levels of social complexity.

A history of Denmark depicts how Denmark, the Danish kingdom and the Danish state have developed and changed over more than a thousand years. In each of the book's nine chapters, researchers from Aarhus University focus on Denmark's political, cultural, social and international conditions.

An analysis of shaman costumes and their context.

An examination of urban planning and its development in the Nordic world.

This anthology aims to demonstrate that the early Danish pioneers saw little distinction between the study of classical antiquity, the middle ages, prehistory, ethnography and human evolution, nor between humanities and natural sciences.

Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict - whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture.

Tiende bind i Det Danske Institut i Athens skriftserie. Dette nummer indeholder bidrag om den danske diplomat Holger Andersens antiksamling på Haderslev Katedralskole, søofficeren Frederik von Scholtens tegninger og akvareller fra Athen 1824-29, en nytilskrivning af en af Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteks arkaiske sfinx-skulpturer til den kendte Kalvebærer/Moscophoros-mester, dansk-græske udgravninger i den antikke by Sikyon på det nordlige Peloponnes og om fund fra udgravninger på Cypern.

How Fordism was transformed as it was relocated across the Atlantic.

Lenin once said "Trust is good, but control is better," but because the presence of social trust lowers transaction costs in everyday life, perhaps we should instead say "Control is good, but trust is cheaper".

The book introduces a largely unknown chapter in the history of Danish and Muscovite foreign policy and diplomacy by addressing the unprecedented treaties of alliance and cooperation concluded by the two powers in the final decades of the Middle Ages.

The history of modern design and architecture has seen many attempts to embrace and merge different art forms, and to bring art into the framing of everyday life and the organisation of modern society, in a process understood as total design or total architecture. These attempts were historically based on the romanticist idea of merging all art forms into a uniting and transgressing work of art, mostly associated with – but certainly not limited to – Richard Wagner’s theoretical writings and musical dramas.This utopian dream of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or Total Work of Art, was intended both to bring unity to the people and to bring art into the everyday life of their homes, as well as into factories, cities and even modern media. As a result, the experiments ranged from music, poetry and drama to architecture, design, visual communication and city-planning. These ideas of merging art forms into more immersive and transgressive installations or design interventions to change everyday life are widespread today, but their complex and often problematic roots are mostly ignored. Design and architecture have delivered some of the broadest and most influential experiments with the Gesamtkunstwerk, from garden cities for workers and corporate identity design to the German AEG corporation.