JØRN UTZON

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Foreword by Jørn Utzon

Introduction




The essence of architecture
         Pavilion in Ålsgårde, 1939
         Extending of the Leidersdorf House,
Lyngby, 1941
         Danish Royal Academy of Music,
Copenhagen, 1944-1945
         Housing competition in Viborg, 1944
         Housing competition in Bellahøj,
Copenhagen, 1945
         Competition for the Aalborg Convention
Centre, 1945
         Preliminary design for a crematorium, 1945
         Temporary housing in Holland, 1945
         Competition for the development
of a set of sports facilities in Næstved,
1946
         Competition for the forest pavilion in Hobro Wood,
1946
         Competition for the Crystal Palace, London,
1946
         Chair. Designs for Modern Furniture
competition. The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, 1946
         Competition for the extending of the
stadium in Aarhus, 1947
         Competition for the theatre in Randers, 1947
         Competition for housing in Borås, 1947
         Paper factory in Morocco, 1947
         Housing complex in Morocco, 1947
         Competition for the Central Railway Station,
Oslo, 1947
         Competition for the Business School in
Göteborg, 1948
         Competition for the development of Vestre
Vika, Oslo, 1948
         Water tower in Svaneke, Bornholm,
1949-1951
         Housing complex in Armebrâten, Oslo,
1951
         The architect?s house in Hellebæk,
1950-1952
         Competition for housing in Skøyen-Oppsal,
Oslo, 1952
         Competition for the Langelinie Pavilion,
Copenhagen, 1953
         Middelboe House, Holte, 1953-1955
         Herstad House, Rungsted, 1953-1954
         Rotzau-Larsen House, Rungsted,
1953-1954
         Andersen House, Hillerød, 1953
         Milling House, Hillerød, 1953-1954
         Skånska Hustyper competition for
low-cost housing, Skåne, 1953
         Terraced houses in Skjern, 1954-1956
         Competition for housing in Växjö, 1954
         Bridge in Oslo, 1954
         Competition for an administration centre
and housing complex in Marieberg,
Stockholm, 1954
         Competition for housing in Elineberg,
Helsingborg, 1954-1966
         Bille House, Vejby Strand, 1954-1955
         Lillesøe House, Holte, 1955
         Villa Frank, Vedbæk, 1956
         Villa Dalsgaard, Holte, 1956
         Arnung House, Nærum, 1956
         Kingo housing complex, Helsingør,
1956
         Housing complex in Bjuv, 1956
         Planetstaden housing complex, Lund,
1956-1957




Platforms and plateaux: ideas of a Danish architect
         Sydney Opera House, 1956-1973
         Competition for Berlin Hauptstadt, Berlin, 1957
         Preliminary design for an airport, 1958
         Banck House, Helsingborg, 1958
         Competition for the High School
in Højstrup, Helsingør, 1958-1962
         Competition for the Copenhagen World Exhibition, Amager, Copenhagen, 1959
         Competition for the development of
Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, 1959
         Housing complex in Fredensborg,
1959-1965
         Melli Bank, Teheran, 1959-1960
         Birkebo housing complex, Højstrup,
Helsingør, 1960
         Competition for the development of Elviria,
Málaga, 1960
         Market in Elineberg, Helsingborg, 1960
         Herneryd House, Helsingborg, 1960-1962
         Residential care centre in Helsingør,
1962-1966
         Povl Ahm House, Harpenden, Hertfordshire,
1963-1964
         The architect?s house in Bayview, Sydney,
1963-1965
         Silkeborg Museum of Art, 1963
         Competition for the Zurich Theatre,
1964-1970
         Competition for the Wolfsburg Theatre,
1965
         Competition for a university centre in
Odense, 1966




Additive architecture
         Competition for Farum town centre,
1966
         Utsep furniture system, 1968
         New Angle furniture system, 1968
         Espansiva building system, 1969
         Espansiva prototype in Hellebæk, 1969
         Export College, Herning,
1969
         Prototype for Uno-X, Herning, 1969-1977
         Stadium in Jedda, Saudi Arabia, 1969
         Competition for the National Museum in
Hammershus, Bornholm, 1969
         Silkeborg Museum of Art, 1969-1971
         Bagsværd Church, 1968-1976
         The architect?s house in Porto Petro,
Can Lis, Majorca, 1971-1973
         Kuwait National Assembly,
1972-1984
         Covered swimming pool in Copenhagen,
1979
         Paustian Furniture Showrooms,
Copenhagen, 1985-1987
         Museum of Modern Art in Fredensborg,
1988
         The architect?s house in S?Horta, Can Feliz,
Majorca, 1972-1994



Chronological list of works and
projects

Biographical note

Bibliography

Photographic credits

Acknowledgements

The career of the Danish architect Jørn Utzon (Copenhagen, 1918) is founded upon two essential convictions: building structure and landscape. With the material tradition of the master builder, Utzon has created an architecture that reconciles the wisdom of vernacular architecture with the buildings of Antiquity, an architecture which has, in the visual eloquence of the Sydney Opera House, given us one of the 20th century's most important buildings. His professional itinerary kicks off with a period in which his projects have a progressive tendency towards their rapport with the landscape. His second phase is typified by the formal and constructional discoveries of massive platforms and lightweight roofs. Meanwhile, in his third period Utzon arrives, in his so-called additive architecture, at the synthesis of geometry, modulation and standardised production that, in the island refuges on Majorca, brings international recognition to a tenacious and lyrical trajectory.