Knud Peter Harboe. Strict constructions

Abstract

The article analyzes the career of the Danish architect Knud Peter Harboe (1925- 2002), characterized by the fidelity to traditional constructive elements and the modern approach, examines the most important timber frame houses of the sixties, including the architect’s house in Ordrup (1958), and the subsequent transposition of the reinforced concrete structures on the scale of the public buildings of the 1970s at the headquarters of N Foss Electric in Hillerød (1961) or the building of Pharmacia in Hillerød (1971) that will allow him to experience into the formal expression of reinforced concrete. The tectonicity of his work evokes the anonymous structure of the structure of traditional constructions and the notion of an architecture as an assembly of components, through the articulation of wooden posts or the logic of prefabricated elements that establish the order of space and expression of the structural framework as a ordered system.