DAMPA_75_years_of_quiet_design_ENG - Flipbook - Page 59
Langelinie Pavillonen, Eva and Nils Koppel
Photo: Langelinie Pavillonen
During the second half of the decade, the type of traditionalist brick and timber modern architecture favoured in the
years immediately before and after the Second World War
was largely superseded by the harder-edged, American-influenced steel, glass and concrete finishes of the International Style.
The glassy, curtain wall-clad exteriors and the opulent materials and minimalistic detailing in the internal spaces of
recent buildings in the USA, such as Lever House by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and the Seagram Building by Ludwig
Mies van der Rohe, located on opposite sides of Park Avenue in New York, were greatly admired in the latter 1950s
and were published in the Danish journal Arkitekten.
In Denmark, established architects such as Arne Jacobsen
and Vilhelm Lauritzen were in the vanguard of introducing
the International Style with younger practitioners then following their lead.
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