Alléhusene, Gentofte, Denmark, Arne Jacobsen 1949-1953

May 2013

At the end of a long, wonderful walk on a beautiful spring day, I am looking for the train station to go back to Copenhagen. The street is blocked, but I meet a man who shows me the way to the station. We talk a little and I say I am here because of architecture. „I have just been to Dubai, you should see the architecture there.“ How to tell him that the house he lives in is way more interesting for me than any starchitect zoo? I did try, don’t know if I succeeded though.