Guiding Architects, tour: Utzon and the Sydney Opera House (Fig. 1)

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Guiding Architects, tour: Utzon and the Sydney Opera House (Fig. 5)

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Tour in Sydney:
Utzon and the Sydney Opera House

Both an in-depth and textured portrait of enigmatic Danish architect Jorn Utzon as well as the story of the 20th Centuries most ambitious architectural project, this tour will draw you into the amazing visionary world of the architect of the Sydney Opera House.

Discussing the sources of the young architects deepest inspiration, his working methods and influences, we will chart the development of Utzon’s ideas and their materialisation in the platform, concrete shells and ceramic skin of Sydney Opera House. You will discover the influence of towering 20th Century figures like Le Corbusier, Aalto, Saarinen, Mies van der Rohe, Wright and even Picasso on Utzon’s thinking, his interest in the methods of Gaudi and you will discover the ways in which his work was at once contemporary whilst drawing inspiration from the work of the ancients.