Provocations Against Perfectionism

Between 1950 and 1980 Danish architects Knud Friis and Elmar Moltke realised hundreds of projects. Most of their work can be found in Jutland, the majority built in and near Aarhus. Roughly 10% of the firm’s built work is presented here, in a cross section of their schools, town halls, sports complexes, housing, private houses and summerhouses, hotels, offices, factories, churches, and conference centres. The book traces the development of Friis and Moltke’s unique and friendly brutalism, which is always comfortable, casual, and, in the words of Knud Friis, a ‘provocation against perfectionism’.