Sydney Opera House

Jorn Utzon

Philip Drew, Anthony Browell - Collection Architecture in detail

60 pages, parution le 03/06/2002

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Jorn Utzon's Opera House has a heroic quality; indeed, Utzon referred to it himself as a kind of 'cathedral', analogous to a Gothic church in the way that light and movement play across its public spaces. Its complex shell-like roof structures echo Gothic arches in section, but the building breaks with all precedent in its three-dimensional form. Finding a practical solution to the construction of these roofs occupied the architect and the engineer Ove Arup for many years, necessitating considerable experimentation with pre-cast concrete technology. Disputes with his client led to Utzon's withdrawal from the project, and the Opera House looked for a time as if it might be a white elephant. At last, after a sixteen-year gestation, it opened in 1973 having already become an Australian national icon.

L'auteur - Philip Drew

is an architectural historian and critic based in Australia. He has written many acclaimed studies of leading twentieth-century contemporary architects, among them Glenn Murcutt and Harry Seidler.

L'auteur - Anthony Browell

worked as a freelance photographer for The Times before emigrating to Australia in 1969, where, in 1976, he started the Australian Centre of Photography workshop. He was the photographer for Three Houses by Glenn Murcutt in the Architecture in Detail series.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Phaidon
Auteur(s)	Philip Drew, Anthony Browell
Collection	Architecture in detail
Parution	03/06/2002
Nb. de pages	60
Format	25 x 25
Couverture	Broché
Poids	380g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780714842158
ISBN13	978-0-7148-4215-8