Designer · Denmark · 1918–2008
Jørn Utzon
Jørn Utzon (1918–2008) – Danish architect, designer of the Sydney Opera House and recipient of the 2003 Pritzker Prize.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1918–2008
- Country
- Denmark
Jørn Utzon was born in Copenhagen in 1918. From 1937 to 1942, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen. In 1957, he won the competition to design the Sydney Opera House, completed in 1973; in 2007, the building was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
His other projects include the Kingo Houses estate (1956–1960), the church in Bagsværd (1968–1976), Can Lis house (1971) and the National Assembly of Kuwait building (1982). He received, among others, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal (1978), the Alvar Aalto Medal (1982), the Wolf Prize (1992), the Sonning Prize (1998) and the Pritzker Prize (2003).
