UTZON JORN
Table of contents:
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.
