Daily Dose 1882

Ole Meyer

It was in the 1960s that the architect and photographer Ole Meyer photographed Danish brickworks, and this gave him a lifelong interest in these buildings, but also in all other forms of commercial construction — the construction that was built without an architect. Ole Meyer practiced as an architect for almost 20 years, from 1960, but in recent years worked exclusively as a photographer. As an architect, Ole Meyer has been responsible for the construction of a number of single-family houses and larger buildings such as Solvangsskolen in Farum (1963-70) and Bella Center in Amager (1973-75) or the Summer house by the Sejrøbugten Bay presented here. (1966) "The design of individual holiday homes will become an increasingly rare task for architects. But perhaps it will be embraced with all the more enthusiasm. It provides an opportunity to get close to some of the fundamental problems of the architectural profession, the integration of a building into the landscape, the cultivation of the overall form to the simplest possible, summarizing the requirements of the functions and the chosen technique, a cultivation of detailing and the expressive potential of materials." Via HIC, Orthoslogos.