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			Creator		Utzon, Jorn, 1918-2008
			Title		Jorn Utzon Sydney Opera House collection, 1956-1967
			Level of Description		Collection
			Date of Work		1956-1967
			Type of Material		Graphic Materials Textual Records
			Physical Description		Architectural and Technical Drawings - 2561 architectural drawings - ; Albums - 8 albums (chiefly architectural drawings - halftone photomechanical prints with text, approx. 276 leaves and prints) - ; Textual Records - 1v., 27 boxes - ; Photographs - ca. 1600 (chiefly silver gelatin photoprints) - ; Photographs - 1436 photonegatives, b&w - ; Objects - 4 wooden models
			Administrative / Biographical Note		Jorn Utzon was born on 9 April 1918 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated with the gold medal for architecture from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen in 1942. He joined the Helsinki office of Alvar Aalto in 1946, and the Helsingborg office of Erik Andersson in 1950. On 29 January 1957 the Premier of New South Wales J.J. Cahill announced Utzon as the winner of an international competition for the design of an opera house to be built on Bennelong Point, Sydney. Work on the construction of the Sydney Opera House began on 2 March 1959. Between 1957 and 1963 Utzon worked on the project from Denmark, moving to Australia on a permanent basis in 1963. On 28 February 1966 Utzon tendered his resignation to Davis Hughes, Minister for Public Works, and left Australia in that year.
			Contents		Records, architectural drawings, photographs and working models re the construction of the Sydney Opera House, 1956-1967. Series 01 Jorn Utzon records, 1956-1967 Series 02 Jorn Utzon Sydney Opera House preliminary and miscellaneous drawings, ca. 1958-1966 Series 03 Jorn Utzon Sydney Opera House working drawings, 1959-1966 Series 04 Jorn Utzon Sydney Opera House Consultants' working drawings & miscellaneous drawings, 1959-1966 Series 05 Jorn Utzon Sydney Opera House architectural reports, ca. 1958-1965 Series 06 Jorn Utzon Sydney Opera House : photographic prints and negatives of site construction, architectural models and drawings, ca. 1961-1965 Series 07 Sydney Opera House, wooden working models, ca. 1962-1966
			Source		Presented 1972 Pic.Acc.2530


			Name		Utzon, Jorn, 1918-
			Subject		Architects -- Australia -- Archives. Architects, Australian -- 20th century. Public buildings -- New South Wales -- Design and construction. Public buildings -- New South Wales -- Sydney. Sydney Opera House -- Design and construction.
			Place		Sydney Opera House (N.S.W.)
			Digital order no.		a119208