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National Opera House, Sydney, Australia (Key for the geometry of the Opera shells)
1961 · Wood, plaster and paint
3 x 35 x 11 3/4" (7.6 x 88.9 x 29.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Jørn Utzon
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Transformations in Modern Architecture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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Good Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950–1951
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Jørn Utzon was a Danish architect whose sculptural approach to building transformed postwar modernism through organic form and site-specificity. Best known for the Sydney Opera House, his practice extended across residential, institutional, and civic commissions that treated architectural volumes as monumental spatial sculptures. His designs synthesized Scandinavian craftsmanship with an intuitive, almost musical sense of structural rhythm. Utzon's influence on late twentieth-century architecture lies in his refusal of rigid geometric rationalism in favor of forms that responded to landscape, light, and the human body at building scale.
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