Jørn Utzon collection of architectural plans
- Bib ID:
- 2990913
- Format:
- Map
- Online Version:
- MAP Jorn Utzon Collection copy
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference. Not for loan.
- Scale:
- Scale 1:1,000.
- Description:
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- [1960-1983]
- 7 architectural plans, 2 photographs : laminated + 5 sheets
- Series:
- Jørn Utzon map collection.
- Biography/History:
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Jørn Utzon was an innovative Danish architect who became internationally renowned for his Sydney Opera House design. Born in Copenhagen in 1918, he graduated from his home city's Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1942, marrying the same year. In the 1940s and 1950s Utzon developed his style of design and architecture by travelled to Morocco, the United States of America, Mexico, China, Japan and India. Utzon won the international competition to design the Sydney Opera House in 1957, with construction beginning in 1959, and Utzon and family moving to Sydney in 1963. But a change of state government, conflict about costs, and the complexity of the design beleaguered the project. After payments to Utzon ceased, he resigned in 1966 and returned to Denmark. Several Sydney architects and concerned citizens campaigned for Utzon to be re-instated, to no avail. From the late 1990s until his death in 2008, Utzon and his son Jan were involved in planning the Sydney Opera House refurbishment, developing design principles to guide future building work. In the year of the 30th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House opening, Jørn Utzon was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, a pinnacle of recognition in the profession.
- Notes:
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- The Jørn Utzon collection of architectural plans consists primarily of enlarged and laminated copies of architectural plans and a document from the 'Sydney Opera House approaches' booklet. Sheets from this booklet include its cover, a document entitled 'Recommendations for car park, bus terminus and pedestrian approach to the Sydney Opera House', and site plans and section plans regarding arrivals and departures. As well as the booklet contents, the collection also contains an enlarged and laminated black and white photograph of Jørn Utzon with an architectural model; copies of a document entitled 'Joern Utzon's approaches to the Sydney Opera House' by Peter Myers and Richard Leplastrier, architects who worked on the Sydney Opera House with Utzon; and an enlarged and laminated black and white photograph showing an aerial view of Sydney Opera House construction.
- Title supplied by cataloguer.
- MAP Jorn Utzon Collection copy Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Related Material:
- Related material: Sydney Opera House approaches; Located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript Section, Papers of Henry Ingham Ashworth, MS 4500, Map Folio 7.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Finding aid available in Special Collections Reading Room and online. Finding Aid reference No.: MFC 11
- Subject:
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- Utzon, Jørn, 1918-2008
- Sydney Opera House -- Design and construction -- Photographs
- Sydney Opera House -- Planning -- Maps
- Theaters -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Designs and plans
- Theaters -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Photographs
- Pedestrian areas -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Planning -- Maps
- Automobile parking -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Planning -- Maps
- Bus terminals -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Planning -- Maps
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs
- Circular Quay (Sydney, N.S.W.) -- Maps
- Time Coverage:
- 1960-1983
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2053 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1983
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