However, one of his father’s cousins, Einar Utzon-Frank, was a sculptor as well as a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He influenced Jørn, who took an interest in sculpting, and after secondary school, he won admission to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
When he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1942, he, like many architects affected by World War II, fled to neutral Sweden where he was employed in the Stockholm office of Hakon Ahlberg for the duration of the war. He then went to Finland to work with Alvar Aalto.
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. Over the next decade, he traveled extensively, visiting Morocco, Mexico, the United States, China, Japan, India, and Australia, the latter destined to become a major factor in his life.
Most of Utzon’s projects have been completed in his native Denmark, but he is best known for the Sydney Opera House, an iconic building of curving roof forms. Construction began in 1959 and was not complete until 1973, and Utzon left the project in 1966 after bitter arguments with Australian officials regarding cost and schedule issues.
His other well known projects include the Kingo Housing Estate (1956-58), Bagsvaerd Church (1973-76), and the Skagen Nature Center (2001), all in Denmark.
Utzon's next major design, after returning to Denmark from Sydney, was the Bagsvaerd Church in Copenhagen. Utzon planned the interior vaults after being inspired by banks of clouds.
Utzon moved to the Spanish island of Majorca in the early 1970s. With his wife he lived in a house designed by himself, Can Feliz, until his death in 2008. The architecture is very solid and simple. A small window allows light to funnel in to the living space and views toward the sea ...
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| Mr. Jørn Utzon |
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| Svaneke water tower Svaneke, Denmark, 1952 |
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| Utzon's House Hellebæk, Denmark, 1952 |
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| Middelboe house Holte, Denmark, 1953-55 |
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| Middelboe house Holte, Denmark, 1953-55 |
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| Kingo Houses Helsingør, Denmark, 1956-58 |
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| Kingo Houses Helsingør, Denmark, 1956-58 |
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| Sydney Opera House Sydney, Australia, 1957-73 |
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| Sydney Opera House Sydney, Australia, 1957-73 |
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| Sydney Opera House Sydney, Australia, 1957-73 |
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| Sydney Opera House Sydney, Australia, 1957-73 |
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| Ahm House Hertfordshire, England, 1961-63 |
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| The Melli Bank Tehran, Iran, 1962 |
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| The Melli Bank Tehran, Iran, 1962 |
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| Madrid opera house competition model 1964 |
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| Madrid opera house competition model 1964 |
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| Bagsværd Church Copenhagen, Denmark, 1976 |
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| Can Lis Portopetro, Majorca, Spain,1971 |
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| Can Lis Portopetro, Majorca, Spain,1971 |
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| Kuwait National Assembly Building 1972-82 |
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| Kuwait National Assembly Building 1972-82 |
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| Kuwait National Assembly Building 1972-82 |
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| Paustian House Museum Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987 |
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| Paustian House Museum Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987 |
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| Can Feliz his summer residence, 1994 |
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| Can Feliz his summer residence, 1994 |
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| Utzon Cente Aalborg, Denmark, 2008 |
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| Utzon Center Aalborg, Denmark, 2008 |
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| Utzon Center Aalborg, Denmark, 2008 |
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| Utzon Center Aalborg, Denmark, 2008 |
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