The Guide to Utzon gives you a unique and interactive insight into one of the world’s most influential architects, Jørn Utzon.
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The “Guide to Utzon” gives you a unique and interactive insight into the wonderful world of my father, the architect Jørn Utzon.
The “Guide to Utzon” gives you access to more than 2200 beautiful photos and 280 drawings of all of Utzon’s works and projects from around the world.
View a complete list of all Utzon’s 56 works, as well as 65 of his most important works that were not completed, including several unseen works. The “Guide to Utzon” also contains 51 sources of inspiration regarding places and persons.
You will be able to explore my fathers life, his sources of inspiration, his projects, his travels and read his own words about his philosophy on life and architecture.
An interactive world map will also give you access to the many facets of this beautifully designed Guide.
The “Guide to Utzon” is a must for all architects and students of architecture, who wish to gain a closer look into the ideas and works of an architect who created some of the most beautiful and innovative buildings in the 20th Century.
Explore and enjoy this beautiful and comprehensive guide, created by photographer Flemming Bo Andersen.
Jan Utzon
All Utzons works in one guide
Utzon created The Sydney Opera House that was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007, being one of the 20th centurys most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing art centres in the world.
But Utzon architecture is more far-reaching than The Sydney Opera House. It includes National Assembly of Kuwait, Melli Bank (the University of Tehran) in Iran, the architect’s own houses in Mallorca and many more projects.
The Guide to Utzon will give you access to all these works, and provide you exclusive photos of every work, and a number of sketches and quotes, that explain the idea and concept that Utzon followed in his work.
Utzons own words and sketches describing the idea behind several works. The main principles that characterized Utzon architecture, described by Utzon himself.
Inspiration and philosophy
The Guide to Utzon brings you close to the many sources of inspiration that characterized and influenced Utzons unique design throughout his life. How Utzon was inspired by the Mayan architecture during his travel to Central America and how the Bazaar in the Middle East influences his way of thinking architecture.
The Guide to Utzon interconnects the sources of inspiration with the final buildings that followed in order to give you an in-depth insight into the main principles in Utzon’s architecture.
All projects geo-mapped including sources of inspiration
Find the Utzon project closest to you or see what projects that you can drop by on your holiday. The Guide to Utzon lists all works all over the world, and lets you see where the projects are located or where they were meant to be located.