“Ideas on Kay Fisker and the biophilic design approach” new publication

BLOGPOST: CARMEN GARCIA SANCHEZ / DATE 28.04.2026

 © Bygningskunst og Kultur, Issue 11, Institute of Architecture and Culture, the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture Design Conservation

We celebrated the launch of the special volume “Kay Fisker” Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur, Issue 11, the most comprehensive yet produced by the Institute of Architecture and Culture at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation.

The publication contains seven peer-reviewed academic articles, two KUV contributions and nine essays by both international researchers and practitioners, as well as researchers from the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation.

It contains seven peer-reviewed academic articles, two KUV contributions and nine essays by both international researchers and practitioners, as well as researchers from the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation.

The issue invites readers to familiarise themselves with his work and ideas, offering a reappraisal and a set of open questions about anonymity, domesticity, craft, and the social role of architecture that feel more urgent than ever.

My essay “Ideas on Kay Fisker and the biophilic design approach” aims to provide a comprehensive overview of Fisker’s important contributions, both direct and indirect, to the emergence of the biophilic design approach in post-war Danish single-family homes, taking his personal collection of photographs as the empirical starting point.

The narrative of the connection between architecture and nature in Denmark has had a continuity from the past to modernity and beyond, encompassing ideas from abroad. Fisker, who asserted a natural, healthy, and unaffected architecture as a genuine response, had a significant influence on the third generation of architects and was instrumental in the emergence of nature-connecting domestic architecture.

Find the link to the open access essay publication below

"Kay Fisker" Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur nº. 11

It has received funding from the European

Union’s H2020 research and innovation

programme under the MSCA grant

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European Commission.