I can’t remember posting an architect who was more connected to so many extraordinary architects as Jørn Utzon. He worked with Arne Jacobsen and Poul Hennigsen. Visited Alvar Alto in Helsinki. Visited Frank Lloyd’s Wright home in the US. Met with Charles and Ray Eames. And finaly studied under Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Utzon was the laureate for the Prizker Architecture Prize in 2003.
Of the Sydney Opera House, Frank Gehry, one of the judges for the Pritzker prize said: “Utzon made a building well ahead of its time, far ahead of available technology, and he persevered through extraordinarily malicious publicity and negative criticism to build a building that changed the image of an entire country.”
John Utzon House 1952, Hellebaek, Denmark
Svaneke Water Tower
1952, Denmark
House in Holte, Denmark
1953
Planetstaden Housing Project
1958, Lund, Sweden
Kingo Houses
1959, Kelsingor, Denmark
Fredensborg Houses
1965
Elineberg Housing
1966, Sweden
Hammershoj Care Centre
1966, Helsingor, Denmark
Can Lis
1971, Majorca, Spain
Sydney Opera House
1973, Sydney, Australia
Eero Saarinen on of the judges deciding on the Opera House described Utzon as a genius and could not endor any other choise.
In order to meet the deadline the drawings for the Opera House were not as finnished as they should have.
Along with Oscar Niemeyer he is the second architect to have one of their pieces inscribed into the register of the World Heritage Site.
Bagsvard Church
1976, Bagsvaerd, Denmark
National Assembly of Kuwait
1982
Paustian Furniture Store
1987
Can Feliz
1994, Majorca, Spain
Skagen Odde Nature Centre
2000, Denmark
Utzon Centre
2008
