Jørn Utzon's reverie of the eye: surfaces of the Sydney Opera House

Title: Jørn Utzon's reverie of the eye: surfaces of the Sydney Opera House
Creator: Roberts, John
Relation: The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter p. 117-134
Publisher: Ashgate
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: During 2013, while construction works were being carried out at the Sydney Opera House, posters on site hoardings carried enthused messages and photographs from hundreds of people celebrating the Opera House and its architect Jørn Utzon (1918-2008). Australian and international visitors clearly hold the building and its architect in affectionate high regard; the rarity of such positive public emotion for architecture triggers the simple question of "why?" Historian Richard Weston regards the Sydney Opera House as "unquestionably the most popular, and arguably the greatest, public building of the twentieth century"; Japanese architect Tadao Ando regards the building as "the summit of the 20th Century Modernist architecture." What might explain the aesthetic appeal of Utzon's Sydney Opera House, extending from the general public to historians and master architects?
Subject: Jørn Utzon; Sydney Opera House; modernist architecture; seeing
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1310213
Identifier: uon:22001
Identifier: ISBN:9781472424587
Language: eng

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