2.  Utzon was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 1937 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine
Arts
 In 1950 he established his own studio in Copenhagen
and, in 1952, built an open-plan house for himself, the
first of its kind in Denmark.
 The Utzon Center in Aalborg, designed together with his
son Kim, was the architect's last assignment.
 Utzon died in Copenhagen on 29 November 2008,
aged 90, of a heart attack in his sleep after a series of
operations. He had never returned to Australia to see
the completed opera house.

3.  He took a particular interest in the works of
American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
 In 1946 he visited Alvar Aalto in Helsinki.
 he travelled to the United States and Mexico,
where the pyramids provided further
inspiration. Fascinated by the way the
Mayans built towards the sky to get closer to
God, he commented that his time in Mexico
was "One of the greatest architectural
experiences in my life.

4.  Jørn Utzon used Additive architecture to
describe his development of architectural
projects on the basis of growth patterns in
nature.
 Jorn utzon used expressionist style in his
Sydney Opera House.
 Utzon's architectural influence is
manifested on three levels: the emphasis
given to the roof element, the importance
given to the grounding of the building, and
the commitment to "the cultural validity of
organic growth.”

5. Sydney Opera House

6.  In 1957 he unexpectedly won the competition to design
the Sydney Opera House. Although he had won six
other architectural competitions previously, the Opera
House was his first non-domestic project.
 The Sydney Opera House is a modern expressionist
design, with a series of large precast concrete "shells“.
 Each composed of sections of a sphere of 75.2 meter
radius , forming the roofs of the structure, set on a
monumental podium.
 The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land and
is 183 meters (605 ft) long and 120 meters (388 ft) wide
at its widest point.
 Although the roof structures of the Sydney Opera House
are commonly referred to as "shells“ , they are in fact
not shells in a strictly structural sense, but are
instead precast concrete panels supported by precast
concrete ribs.

7.  Apart from the tile of the shells and the
glass curtain walls of the foyer spaces,
the building's exterior is largely clad with
aggregate panels composed of pink
granite quarried in Tarana.
 Of the two larger spaces, the Concert
Hall is located within the western group
of shells, and the Opera Theatre within
the eastern group.
 The smaller venues (the Drama Theatre,
the Playhouse, and The Studio) are
located within the podium, beneath the
Concert Hall

8. The Islamic design of the
Kuwait National Assembly
was inspired by Utzon's visit
to Isfahan, Iran.
The new columns were tapered
cylinders creating colonnades
reminiscent of ancient Greece or
Egypt. Cylindrical vaulting was
also to be used for the ceiling of
the central hall, giving the
building the appearance of
flowing fabric.

9. The Utzon Center in Aalborg,
Denmark, was the last building
to be designed by Jørn Utzon
 he planned the centre not as
a museum but as a place
where students of architecture
could meet and discuss their
ideas for the future.
It has highly reflective,
dramatically curved rooftops.
The centre consists of
several individual buildings
creating a special place
around a courtyard on a
platform.

10. KINGO HOUSES, HELSINGOR
The development consists of 63 L-
shaped houses based upon the
design of traditional Danish
farmhouses with central courtyards
and that of Chinese and Islamic
dwellings.
Each unit has an
area of 15 by 15
metres.
The development
is based on
Utzon's additive
approach.

11.  Bagsværd Church, Bagsværd, Denmark,
1968–76.
 Can Lis, Architect's own house, Majorca,
Spain, 1971–73.
 Architect's own house, Hellebæk,
Denmark, 1950–52.
 Middelboe house, Holte, Denmark, 1953–
55.
 Melli Bank, University of Tehran Branch,
Tehran, Iran, 1959–60.