If Jørn Utzon did not exist, we would have to invent him. His story, mostly the legend of that single and singular building, the Sydney Opera House, provides the enduring foundational myth for all contemporary architectural practice. Utzon is our sage Kenobi, our renegade Solo, our heroic Skywalker, all in one. He looked the part, too: an architect out of central casting in the Gary-Cooper-as-Howard-Roark mould, as tall as Rem Koolhaas, as beautiful as Jacques Herzog, as Danish as Bjarke Ingels. — architectmagazine.com
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Utterly fantastic drawings.
Right? I have always had the suspicion that this building is awfully underrated and these drawings are strong evidence for that.
That's a good way of putting it, Q - for all its accolades, this building is in fact underrated. I was there in 2001 and it was absolutely stunning.
Superlative-tecture!
Nice, Quondam.
The entire article is lovely and though it's a tragic story the article ends on a poetic and optimistic note.
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