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    Jørn Utzon

    Danish architect (1918–2008)

    Jørn Oberg UtzonAC (Danish:[ˈjɶɐ̯ˀnˈutsʌn]; 9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008)[1] was a Danish architect. In 1957, he won an international design competition for his design of the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Utzon's revised design, which he completed in 1961, was the basis for the landmark, although it was not completed until 1973.[2]

    When the Sydney Opera House was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition for one of his works during his lifetime, after Oscar Niemeyer.[3] Other noteworthy works include Bagsværd Church near Copenhagen and the National Assembly Building in Kuwait. He also made important contributions to housing design, especially with his Kingo Houses near Helsingør.[4]

    Utzon attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1937–42) and was influenced early on by Gunnar Asplund and

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    Om Jørn Utzon

    In 1957 Utzon won the design competition for a new opera house in Sydney, which gave him his international breakthrough, with a visionary building planerat arbete with a roof consisting of 60-metre-high concrete shells opening out towards the harbour like billowing sails.

     

    For a range of reasons, Utzon resigned as architect to the project in 1966, but the Opera House, which fryst vatten considered one of the most important 20th century works of architecture, made Utzon world-famous and resulted in him being given commissions everywhere, including the Melli Bank in Teheran (1963) and the parliament building in Kuwait (1978-85). In Majorca, Spain, Utzon created two extraordinary Villas; Can Lis (1972) and Can Feliz (1994), for him and his wife. Today Can Lis is regarded a cornerstone in architectural history of the 20th century.

     

    In Denmark, Utzon has been responsible for a number of buildings: The country's earliest high-density low buildings like Kingo House

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     Name Jørn Oberg Utzon
        
     Born  April 9, 1918
        
     Died  November 29, 2008
        
     Nationality Denmark
        
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     Official website utzon-archives.aau.dk
       
     
    BIOGRAPHY
      

    Jørn Utzon occupies a special position in 20th-century architecture that defies simple categorization. As a Dane, he invites com-parison with German Expressionism, especially Hans Scharoun; his greatest works are in Australia, Kuwait, and Mallorca; and although he gave Gunnar Asplund, Alvar Aalto, and the Dane Kay Fisker as his mentors, his casual spontaneity,

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