Danish architect, 1918 to 2008, winner of the 1957 competition for the Sydney Opera House, whose shell vaults he resolved as segments of a single sphere before political conflict forced his resignation in 1966, the interiors finished by others. He never returned to see the building; the 2003 Pritzker Prize and Sydney's later reconciliation with him acknowledged the masterpiece it had cost him.
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Source UNESCO World Heritage Centre Official Site
Why this is disputed. Jorn Utzon Sydney Opera House is frequently discussed within an architectural-expressionist and organic-modernist lineage, though Utzon was not a formal member of the German Expressionist movement.
RIBA Royal Gold Medal recipient 1978
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Why this is disputed. Utzon is sometimes read as an expressionist architect because of the Sydney Opera House shells, but he did not belong to the movement and the label is disputed.
Influenced By
Source Pritzker Architecture Prize: Jorn Utzon biography
Source Pritzker Architecture Prize: Jorn Utzon biography
Works Designed
Utzon resigned in 1966; the interiors were completed by Hall, Todd and Littlemore.
Source UNESCO World Heritage Centre Official Site
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1. Pritzker Architecture Prize (Wikipedia)
Criteria and proceedingsQuote, Criteria and proceedings
(In 1988 Gordon Bunshaft nominated himself for the award and eventually won it.) The jury, consisting of five to nine "experts ... recognized professionals in their own fields of architecture, business, education, publishing, and culture", deliberates and early in the following year announce the winner. The prize chair is the 2016 Pritzker laureate Alejandro Aravena; earlier chairs were J. Carter Brown (1979-2002), the Lord Rothschild (2003-2004), the Lord Palumbo (2005-2015), Glenn Murcutt (2016-2018) and Stephen Breyer (2019-2020).
2. Pritzker Architecture Prize Official Site
3. Encyclopedia Britannica
UNESCO World Heritage Centre Official Site
UNESCO World Heritage Centre- Works Designed: Sydney Opera House
- Associated With: Completion of the Sydney Opera House
View the Source Pritzker Architecture Prize: Jorn Utzon biography
Influenced By: Alvar Aalto, Biography page body
An admirer of the ideas of Gunnar Asplund, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright while still in school, Utzon acknowledges that Aalto, Asplund and Wright were all major influences in his own work.
Influenced By: Frank Lloyd Wright, Biography page body
An admirer of the ideas of Gunnar Asplund, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright while still in school, Utzon acknowledges that Aalto, Asplund and Wright were all major influences in his own work.
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