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The Art Corner (Architect)

Jorn Utzon
(b. Copenhagen 1918)

Jّrn Utzon was born in Copenhagen in 1918. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, under Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen. After spending the war years studying with Erik Gunnar Asplund, Utzon travelled through Europe, the United States and Mexico. He established his own practice in Copenhagen in 1950 when he returned from his travels.

Utzon has created a style marked by monumental civic buildings and unobtrusive housing projects. He incorporates the balanced discipline of Asplund, the sculptural quality of Alvar Aalto, and the organic structures of Frank Lloyd Wright into his designs. Influenced by architectural tradition, he attempts to create architecture for living that adheres to a strict structural and constructive process.

Utzon always considers site conditions and program requirements before he designs each building. He transcends architecture as art and develops his forms into poetic inventions that possess thoughtful programming, structural integrity and sculptural harmony.

Details

Recipient of the Pritzker Prize, 2003

Works
Church at Bagsvaerd, at near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1974 to 1976.
Houses in Fredensborg, at Fredensborg, North Zealand, Demark, 1959 to 1962.
Kingo Houses, at Elsinore, Denmark, 1956.
Sydney Opera, at Sydney, Australia, 1957 to 1973.

Sydney Opera

Location Sydney, Australia
Date 1957 to 1973
Building Type opera house
Construction System tile-clad concrete and precast concrete
Climate temperate
Context urban waterfront
Style Expressionist Modern
Notes Great stairway, family of forms in spherical section roofs, pure curving shapes that across the harbor in great heroic harmony

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