Jørn Utzon   Denmark   In the 1960s, Herning – a small town in the center of Jutland – became a cultural reference for art, with an intense cultural life promoted by the rich textile industry. In this context, Utzon was commissioned to design an experimental school that sh

Jørn Utzon   Australia   In 1957, when he was 38 years old, Utzon won the competition to build the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point, a small cape located at the center of the Bay, between the interior port and the coast. It was a moment of change in Australia, an optimi

Jørn Utzon   Denmark   Built in 1959 and in 1963 respectively, the Kingo and Fredensborg houses share one same system of organic growth based on the repetition of the same residential type. In both cases, the main idea is to combine the privacy of domestic life – through i

Jørn Utzon   Denmark   Built in 1959 and in 1963 respectively, the Kingo and Fredensborg houses share one same system of organic growth based on the repetition of the same residential type. In both cases, the main idea is to combine the privacy of domestic life – through i

Richard Weston   The development of Utzon’s designs – perhaps of most good designs? – seems to have been characterised by moments of insight punctuating protracted periods of hard work to explore their implications. Nowhere was this truer than in Sydney. The vital sp

Richard Weston   El centenario de Utzon es una buena oportunidad para constatar la actualidad de su obra, inspirada en metáforas naturales y arquitectónicas.

Enrique Encabo   «Un profesional puro, no un dialéctico ajeno a la práctica de la arquitectura». Las palabras que Alvar Aalto dedicó a Erik Gunnar Asplund tras su fallecimiento hubieran sido sin duda idóneas para describir al propio Aalto y a Jørn Utzon, a quienes ha

Christopher Thompson   En 1966, el gobierno conservador recién elegido en Australia consiguió forzar la dimisión de Jørn Utzon, que abandonó el país dejando la Ópera de Sidney inacabada. Su proyecto fue terminado por otros que, al no comprender el espíritu de su arquitectu