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Hyltebjerg Church

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hyltebjerg kirke - church in vanløse, copenhagen 1944-1960. architects: christian (1882-1968), erik (1909-1981) and aage holst (1915-2001). what is a wartime church by holst and sons doing in a set about hans chr. hansen's architecture? well, at the time any copenhagen architect could have told you. in 1942, two years into the nazi occupation of denmark, hans chr. hansen and his partner viggo s. jørgensen finally won one of the many competitions they entered outside their work at the copenhagen municipality. It was for a church in odense and not long after, the holsts won their first prize in vanløse with an almost exact copy of hansen and jørgensen’s project. controversy ensued in the small world of Danish architects and steen eiler rasmussen was called upon to mediate between the two teams. oh, architects! I cringe at the thought. europe was on fire and in copenhagen, five men argued over intellectual property, not a proud moment for any of the involved. but hansen's church was never built and we are left with the copy when trying to understand this critical period in his development. it was very much a project of the hour. massive unemployment and housing shortages led to new public works being undertaken despite the war. with a traumatized cultural life in copenhagen and no access to steel, architects collectively returned to p.v.jensen-klint’s brick nationalism in a movement kay fisker later named the klint school. fisker had already reconciled the klint school with modernism in his seminal aarhus university from 1931, but the wartime projects looked back with greater determination to p.v.jensen-klint, and the churches discussed here are best described as fragments of jensen-klint’s ”krystalknude” or crystal-cluster of church towers, a sketch for a national memorial from 1907. I have briefly discussed some of the consequences of abandoning modernism as it happened during the second world war in danish architecture, here and here. in hansen’s case, I believe it
hyltebjerg kirke - church in vanløse, copenhagen 1944-1960. architects: christian (1882-1968), erik (1909-1981) and aage holst (1915-2001). what is a wartime church by holst and sons doing in a set about hans chr. hansen's architecture? well, at the time any copenhagen architect could have told you. in 1942, two years into the nazi occupation of denmark, hans chr. hansen and his partner viggo s. jørgensen finally won one of the many competitions they entered outside their work at the copenhagen municipality. It was for a church in odense and not long after, the holsts won their first prize in vanløse with an almost exact copy of hansen and jørgensen’s project. controversy ensued in the small world of Danish architects and steen eiler rasmussen was called upon to mediate between the two teams. oh, architects! I cringe at the thought. europe was on fire and in copenhagen, five men argued over intellectual property, not a proud moment for any of the involved. but hansen's church was never built and we are left with the copy when trying to understand this critical period in his development. it was very much a project of the hour. massive unemployment and housing shortages led to new public works being undertaken despite the war. with a traumatized cultural life in copenhagen and no access to steel, architects collectively returned to p.v.jensen-klint’s brick nationalism in a movement kay fisker later named the klint school. fisker had already reconciled the klint school with modernism in his seminal aarhus university from 1931, but the wartime projects looked back with greater determination to p.v.jensen-klint, and the churches discussed here are best described as fragments of jensen-klint’s ”krystalknude” or crystal-cluster of church towers, a sketch for a national memorial from 1907. I have briefly discussed some of the consequences of abandoning modernism as it happened during the second world war in danish architecture, here and here. in hansen’s case, I believe it Author: seier+seier, License: CC BY 2.0 · Source
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