Jørn Utzon. Obras y proyectos – Works and Projects, by Jaime J. Ferrer Forés (Editorial Gustavo Gili 2006) introduces Utzon’s works and architectural thinking.
La trayectoria del arquitecto danés Jørn Utzon (Copenhague, 1918) fluye sobre dos convicciones esenciales: la construcción y el paisaje. Sobre ellas levanta, con la tradición material del maestro constructor, una arquitectura que concilia la sabiduría de la arquitectura vernácula con las construcciones de la Antigüedad y que tiene, en la elocuencia plástica de las cáscaras de la Ópera de Sídney, una de las edificaciones más destacadas del siglo xx. El itinerario profesional se inicia con un período que tiende progresivamente los proyectos hacia el terreno del paisaje; la segunda etapa se caracteriza por los hallazgos formales y constructivos de las plataformas masivas y las cubiertas leves; mientras que en el tercer período, desarrolla, con la denominada arquitectura aditiva, la síntesis de geometría, modulación y producción estandarizada, que alcanza en los refugios insulares en Mallorca el reconocimiento internacional a una trayectoria tenaz y lírica.
The career of the Danish architect Jørn Utzon (Copenhagen, 1918) is founded upon two essential convictions: building structure and landscape. With the material tradition of the master builder, Utzon has created an architecture that reconciles the wisdom of vernacular architecture with the buildings of Antiquity, an architecture which has, in the visual eloquence of the Sydney Opera House, given us one of the 20th century’s most important buildings. His professional itinerary kicks off with a period in which his projects have a progressive tendency towards their rapport with the landscape. His second phase is typified by the formal and constructional discoveries of massive platforms and lightweight roofs. Meanwhile, in his third period Utzon arrives, in his so-called additive architecture, at the synthesis of geometry, modulation and standardised production that, in the island refuges on Majorca, brings international recognition to a tenacious and lyrical trajectory.
– Jaime J. Ferrer Forés, Jørn Utzon. Obras y proyectos – Works and Projects (Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2006), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English and Spanish. The book is richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy is in very good condition. The pages are clean; no markings. The glueing of the binding is fine a bit fractured broken. The dust jacket has some minor edge wear and shows some signs of shelf wear and use. / The covers show only some minor traces of shelf wear and use. There is an index sticker / old price sticker on the back front cover.
