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Sydney Opera House - Jorn Utzon
Philip Drew
Reviewed by Lester Korzilius
Published in Oculus, February 1996; Kebyar Network News, March/April 1996 |
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This book gives an excellent presentation of Jorn Utzon's Sydney Opera
House (1957-1973), in text, drawings and photographs. Utzon (1918- ) won
an international competition out of 234 entrants to begin a process that
became so torturous, he was forced to resign midway through the project.
When Utzon left the project, the roof shells were nearing completion. The
interiors and glass walls were designed and completed by other architects.
The only other reference most architects know on the Sydney Opera House is the GA monograph published in 1980, and now out of print. The current monograph gives far more information. For example, one learns, via early drawings, that Utzon's original design had the two concert halls as separate structures under the soaring shells, with an open visible space between them and the shells, giving a completely different feel to the design as built. Selections from the competition drawings, intermediate schematic and design development drawings, and the final drawings are shown in this monograph. One can see the unrealized promise in Utzon's conception that was not carried through by the replacement architects. The monograph also gives a comprehensive bibliography. This is a "must have" book for an architect's library. |
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