Building a Masterpiece
Building a Masterpiece

Author: Anne Watson

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9781863171526

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Building a masterpiece explores some of the untold chapters in the long history of the Opera House's gestation, development and completion -- of individuals whose careers were made or broken by the Opera House, the companies whose reputations were secured through their association with the building, and the pioneering construction methods, innovative technologies and methodologies developed to meet the demands of its unprecedented design and challenging construction. The workers who built the building, the politicians, architects and members of the public who championed it and its often beleaguered architect are discussed as is its current world status as a symbol of Australia.To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House, this new edition of Building a Masterpiece will include a new chapter on another little known and much misunderstood story: the architect who took over from Utzon and completed the project.

Jorn Utzon
Jorn Utzon

Author: Fracoise Fromonot

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788843578054

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The definitive history of the Sydney Opera House project.

The Masterpiece
The Masterpiece

Author: Philip Drew

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 9781876719340

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A dual biography of the Sydney Opera House and its elusive master craftsman. Utzon was desperate to escape the fame that followed him after his creation came to fruition in 1966, and he remains resistant to any serious reflection on his life and work. It has taken 30 years of persistent research to gain an understanding of his character.

Jørn Utzon
Jørn Utzon

Author: Michael Asgaard Andersen

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2013-12-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781616891800

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Visionary Danish architect Jørn Utzon was just thirty-eight years old when in 1957 he was named the surprise winner of an international competition to design the Sydney Opera House in Australia. His bold design consisting of five performance halls topped by billowing concrete shells clad in ceramic tile is universally recognized as a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture. While this early triumph brought Utzon worldwide fame, it overshadowed a larger body of work of great importance for modern architecture. Utzon's highly diverse projects around the globe, from the National Assembly in Kuwait and Melli Bank in Tehran, Iran, to the Bagsværd Church and numerous houses in Denmark, are testaments to his belief that modernism need not sacrifice local character to be forward thinking. Organized into six thematic chapters—place, working method, building culture, construction, materiality, and living—Jørn Utzon presents all of his important work as well as many of his lesser-known, though equally important competition entries, furniture designs, and other built projects.

Jørn Utzon Houses
Jørn Utzon Houses

Author: Henrik Sten Møller

Publisher: Living Architecture

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Jørn Utzon is best known as the architect of the Sydney Opera House, probably the world's most famous modern building and arguably the 20th-century's boldest, most important and impressive work of architecture. All his works – both the large and famous and the small and private – with their brilliant simplicity and honest originality, are masterpieces of 20th-century architecture.This book presents all of Utzon's buildings in more than 400 outstanding color photographs taken by architecture photographer Per Nagel over a period of 25 years. Architect Vibe Udsen reviews each building and architecture critic Henrik Sten Møller presents a portrait of Jørn Utzen the man and the architect. Photographer Per Nagel has collaborated with architect Vibe Udsen for many years in publishing the architectural annual Living Architecture, which is distributed worldwide.

Postphenomenology and Architecture
Postphenomenology and Architecture

Author: Lars Botin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-02-22

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1793609446

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Architecture and urban design are typically considered as a result of artistic creativity performed by gifted individuals. Postphenomenology and Architecture: Human Technology Relations in the Built Environment analyzes buildings and cities instead as technologies. Informed by a postphenomenological perspective, this book argues that buildings and the furniture of cities—like bike lanes, benches, and bus stops—are inscribed in a conceptual framework of multistability, which is to say that they fulfill different purposes over time. Yet, there are qualities in the built environment that are long lasting and immutable and that transcend temporal functionality and ephemeral efficiency. The contributors show how different perceptions, practices, and interpretations are tangible and visible as we engage with these technologies. In addition, several of the chapters critically assess the influence of Martin Heidegger in modern philosophy of architecture. This book reads Heidegger from the perspective of architecture and urban design as technology, shedding light on what it means to build and dwell.

Transmaterial
Transmaterial

Author: Blaine Erickson Brownell

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781568985633

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New materials are reshaping the world and this reference manual has details on the most interesting and useful new materials now available. Featuring more than 200 materials, this is an essential tool for keeping up with rapid developments in the field or as a source of inspiration for designs.