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Vedanatomisk analyse af trækul fra jordprøver fra Ny 132 Strømlinje, Lyngdal kommune, Agder fylke, Norge
No full text’Brandenburger’ im Einsatz:Deutsche heimliche Agenten und der Überfall auf Dänemark am 9. April 1940
No full textThinging Architecture::Architectural Affordance in Community-Making
No full textThough mundane things such as potted plants, doormats or Christmaslights are an unavoidable part of residential life in many neighbour-hoods, their importance for community-making is rarely taken seriouslyin architectural design. This article shows how decorations in the transi-tion zones from private to public domains play a pivotal role in informalcommunity-making among residents in Danish social housing, as theyoffer a highly social – though indirect – way of negotiating atmosphericand communal expectations and coherences. Analysing empirical casesfrom three typologically different housing estates, we argue that thearchitectural design heavily influences the extent to which residents canform communities through things. Combining material culture theoryand design theory, the article promotes the concept of thinging architec-ture as a means of categorising and identifying architectural elements/design that affords residents community-making through things. Thearticle concludes that thinging architecture should play a crucial role inthe design of social housing to enable a strong communal life.Though mundane things such as potted plants, doormats or Christmas lights are an unavoidable part of residential life in many neighbourhoods, their importance for community-making is rarely taken seriously in architectural design. This article shows how decorations in the transition zones from private to public domains play a pivotal role in informal community-making among residents in Danish social housing, as they offer a highly social though indirect way of negotiating atmospheric and communal expectations and coherences. Analysing empirical cases from three typologically different housing estates, we argue that the architectural design heavily influences the extent to which residents can form communities through things. Combining material culture theory and design theory, the article promotes the concept of thinging architecture as a means of categorising and identifying architectural elements/design that affords residents community-making through things. The article concludes that thinging architecture should play a crucial role in the design of social housing to enable a strong communal life
Anmeldelse af Paul Van Heesvelde and Ralf Roth (ed.): The City and the Railway in the world from the nineteenth century to the present, Routledge, 2022
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The buildings and chamber burial beneath the stone church
No full textSituated only around 10m south of the foot of the North Mound, Jelling Church occupies a central position within the monument complex and the enclosure; a position which resembles that of the great halls and main buildings of numerous Viking-Age farmsteads and manors recorded across southern Scandinavia. Excavations in the 1940s and 1970s in the standing church from around AD 1100 have revealed traces of several, successive wooden buildings and a chamber burial that is roughly contemporary with the burial in the North Mound. Yet, despite the immense interest in the first building phase and the chamber burial, the architecture of each phase and the stratigraphy beneath the church have only been briefly presented in earlier publications. Based on a re-evaluation of the original Jelling documentation and, in the light of the current, much improved knowledge of the architecture of the period, it is now possible to suggest alternative interpretations of the wooden buildings beneath the church at Jelling
