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Jorn Utzon

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Postwar and Late Modern Architecture

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.

Facts
Birth Year
1918 2
Death Year
2008 3
Nationality
Danish 2
Defining Contribution
The Sydney Opera House 2
Classification
Award
Pritzker Architecture Prize 1
Jorn Utzon
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Sydney Opera House

Jorn Utzon
Connections

Associated With

Completion of the Sydney Opera House, Milestones
Source UNESCO World Heritage Centre Official Site
Critical Regionalism, Concepts
Expressionist Architecture, Styles and Movements

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.

Royal Institute of British Architects, Institutions and Organizations

RIBA Royal Gold Medal recipient 1978

Influenced By

Alvar Aalto, Architects and Designers
Source Pritzker Architecture Prize: Jorn Utzon biography
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architects and Designers
Source Pritzker Architecture Prize: Jorn Utzon biography

Works Designed

Sydney Opera House, Buildings and Structures

Utzon resigned in 1966; the interiors were completed by Hall, Todd and Littlemore.

Source UNESCO World Heritage Centre Official Site
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Denmark, nationality there.
Sources
1. Pritzker Architecture Prize (Wikipedia)
Laureates
Quote, Laureates
2003 laureate, Pritzker Architecture Prize official laureate list (pritzkerprize.com/laureates)
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2. Pritzker Architecture Prize Official Site
The Hyatt FoundationView the Source
3. Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source
UNESCO World Heritage Centre Official Site
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  • Works Designed: Sydney Opera House
  • Associated With: Completion of the Sydney Opera House
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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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