Jørn Oberg Utzon AC (Danish: [ˈjɶɐ̯ˀn ˈutsʌn]; 9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008) [1] was a Danish architect. In 1957, he won an international design competition for his design of the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

Jørn Utzon (born April 9, 1918, Copenhagen, Denmark—died November 29, 2008, Copenhagen) was a Danish architect best known for his dynamic, imaginative, but problematic design for the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

Apr 9, 2019 · Pritzker Prize winning architect Jørn Utzon (9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008) was the relatively unknown Dane who, on the 29th January 1957, was announced as the winner of the "International...

Jørn Utzon’s world fame rests largely on one work: the Sydney Opera House. Winning the international competition in 1957 thrust him overnight into the international architectural spotlight. Its completion in October 1973 made Sydney instantly recognizable and provided it with an architectural symbol that emphasized the importance of its harbor.

Danish architect Jørn Utzon was born in 1918. While in secondary school, he began helping his father, director of a shipyard in Alborg, Denmark, and brilliant naval architect, by studying new designs, drawing up plans and making models.

Nov 27, 2024 · Architect Jørn Utzon, globally recognized for projects like the Sydney Opera House, introduced an innovative design featuring its iconic shell-shaped roofs. Though he achieved great fame in...

Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who designed what has arguably become the most famous building in the world, the Sydney Opera House in Australia, has been chosen as the 2003 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize which marks its twenty-fifth anniversary this year.

Learn about Jørn Utzon, the architect behind the Sydney Opera House's iconic design and his departure from the project.

now hailed as a masterpiece—Jørn Utzon’s masterpiece. The Sydney Opera House is actually a complex of theatres and halls all linked together beneath its famous shells.

Nov 28, 2008 · Jørn Utzon, b.1918 - d.2008, is today the most important Danish architect throughout history. He derived his earliest inspiration from foreign architects such as Alvar Aalto and Frank Lloyd Wright, whose organic conception of architecture was of great significance for Utzon's own expressive and sculptural nature-inspired architecture.