As the Utzon family come to Sydney to celebrate the 50th birthday of their architect father Jorn’s celebrated Sydney Opera House, Lin Utzon talks to us exclusively from Denmark.
Spring in the Hellebæk beech forest, when the floor becomes a carpet of white anemones flowering in the vivid green moss, draws Lin Utzon back to Denmark most years. Foreseeing the moment when the darkness lifts and the sunlight touches the earth in the forest, she returns from Mallorca, where she mainly lives. The beech trees are naked and the Japanese knotweed that marks a natural boundary to her property is bare and brown.
Lin and Jan Utzon, the children of Sydney Opera House architect Jorn Utzon, will talk on Tuesday at a lecture for the building’s 50th anniversary on October 20, 1973. Working from a studio in the garage at Hellebæk with one young colleague, Utzon won very few commissions. By 1971 he’d given up on Denmark, taking a post teaching architecture at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
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