CATZ

Den verdensberømte danske arkitekt Arne Jacobsen har skabt en overflod af bygningsværker og brugsdesign i verdensklasse. Sent i karrieren afslørede han, at skulle han blot vælge ét af sine værker, ville det blive St Catherine’s College, Catz, i Oxford. Dette er fortællingen om Catz i fortid, nutid og fremtid. Bogen beskriver tilblivelseshistorien, arkitekturen og parken omkring, ligesom den præsenterer studerende, der lever her og formes af dette særlige sted. Byggeriet bliver sat ind i filmens, litteraturens, poesiens, satirens, musikkens, kritikkens og erindringernes verden og belyses gennem helt nye fotos, studenterinterview, glemte eller oversete beretninger og tegninger fra England og Danmark og meget mere. Forfatteren, René Kural, arkitekt og ph.d., har udgivet en række bøger om flere betydende byggerier. Bogens billeder er af arkitekturfotograf Rasmus Hjortshøj.

The world-renowned architect Arne Jacobsen created a wealth of world-class buildings and functional designs. Late in his career, he revealed that if he had to choose just one of his designs, it would be St Catherine’s College, affectionately known as Catz, in Oxford. This is the story of Catz in the past, present, and future. The book describes the genesis of the project, the architecture, and the surrounding park and introduces some of the students who live here and are being shaped by this unique place. The college is viewed through the lens of film, literature, poetry, satire, music, critique and recollections and illuminated with new photographs, student interviews, forgotten or overlooked stories and drawings from England and Denmark – and much more. The author, architect RenéKural, PhD, has written several books on significant works of architecture. Architecture photographer Rasmus Hjortshøj took all the new photographs for the book.