Danish Family Homes makes the case for the 450,000 single-family houses built across Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s — a housing type long dismissed as generic — by entering twelve of them and letting the residents speak.
About This Book
The Danish "parcel house" has never enjoyed the esteem of its mid-century design contemporaries, yet these neighbourhoods represent the domestic landscape for a significant proportion of the Danish population. This book repositions them. Through first-hand visits and interviews with twelve homeowners, it documents the lived reality of a housing type that is anything but uniform. Full-colour photography reveals mid-century Danish design — furniture, materials, spatial organisation — in its original domestic context, while reflective essays argue for a development approach that honours the cultural and historical value of these neighbourhoods as they are adapted for future needs. A work of architectural advocacy as much as documentation.
Key Features
- 216 pages of full-colour photography and reflective essays documenting twelve Danish parcel-house interiors
- Authors: Helene Høyer Mikkelsen and Line Stougaard
- Published by The Architectural Publisher B
What You'll Discover
- How mid-century Danish domestic design survives and functions within its original context, distinct from the curated versions found in vintage retail
- The personal histories and spatial choices of twelve homeowners — a qualitative dimension absent from conventional housing surveys
- Arguments for why dismissive attitudes toward postwar single-family housing overlook genuine cultural-historical significance
- A framework for thinking about the adaptive future of mass-produced housing neighbourhoods without erasing what makes them coherent
About the Author
Helene Høyer Mikkelsen is joined by co-author Line Stougaard in producing this study of Danish postwar housing. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 216
- Dimensions: 300 x 220 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788792700520
- Publisher: The Architectural Publisher B
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and urban designers working on housing typologies, design historians with a focus on Scandinavian modernism, and researchers interested in the cultural life of postwar domestic architecture.