• Title
  Item 20: Jorn Utzon Sydney Opera House photonegatives, ca. 1961-1965
• Call number
  ON 122/1-500
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1961-1965
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  52838
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : PXA 967 v.1-2 for a selection of prints from these negatives
  Partly Digitised : 131 (of 500) negatives
  
• Physical Description
  500 negatives
  
• Scope and Content
  Collection includes: construction shots of the Opera House; models of the Minor Hall roof construction; model of "geisha wig" design, Minor Hall, 1960; designs for acoustic devices; early models of the late 1950s; samples and prototypes of pre-fabricated granite chip cladding; photographs taken in Utzon's studio at Hellebaek, Denmark, 1962; models of the Major Hall, c.1964
  
  1-6. Furniture
  7-8. Aerial - Sydney Opera House Site - Stage I, 10/6/63
  9. Aerial - Stage I
  10-49. [Construction site]
  50-57. [Miscellaneous]
  58-89. Views of North Sydney, demolition of houses for new highway. March 1964
  90-94. [Models]
  95-96. Schedule of segments
  97. [Model]
  98-101. [Model shop]
  102-109. Model shop, Denmark
  110-111. Acoustics
  112-123. Negatives of minor hall ceiling model taken by Erich Fisher, July 1965
  124-143. Acoustic model, November 1964
  144-149. Acoustic model
  150. Major hall ceiling
  151-152. Acoustic ceiling
  153-164. Triangles for the major hall - acoustic
  165. Acoustic
  166. Seating
  167-195. [Models]
  196-205. Glass walls
  206-248. [Construction]
  249-251. Ralph Symonds photos
  252-268. Symonds factory, November 1964
  269. Major hall [plan]
  270. Site plan
  271. Plan of major hall
  272. West elevation [plan]
  273. Plan of ground floor
  274. Plan of minor hall
  275. [Plan]
  276. Stueplan ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  277. Nord facade ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  278. Vest facade ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  279. Galleriplan ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  280. Snit B ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  281. Snit D ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  282. Est facade ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  283. Syd facade ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  284. Gulvplan ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  285. Tagplan ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  286. Snit C ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  287. [Plans, Silkeborg Museum]
  288. Snit A ... Silkeborg Museum, Jorn Utzon ... Nov. 1963
  289-294. [Plans, Silkeborg Museum]
  295. Paris Opera
  296. Sydney Town Hall (transverse section)
  297. Sydney Town Hall (elevation)
  298-299. Salzburg [plans]
  300. Jorn Utzon, Bayview House, sketch
  301. Parts of telephone
  302. The god Itzamna [a stone head from Copan], chief of the Maya pantheon ...
  303. Jer-sea design of Sweden [ladies swimwear]
  304. Abu Simbel
  305-307. Ballet `Elektra'
  308. Stone carved statue (France)
  309. Birth of Venus (Botticelli)
  310. Ice cream
  311. Antarctic book
  312. Fabricated bifurcate for hydro electric penstock
  313. Reinforced multiple offtake for water supply reticulation
  314. [Snow?]
  315-386. [Models]
  387-399. Models
  400-409. Interior model, Pavilion model. March 1965
  410-421. [Models]
  422. Model, east elevation, revised scheme
  423-475. [Models]
  476. [Unidentified male]
  477-492. [Models]
  493. Actual underlay [plan]
  494. Raised plaza concourse, restaurants, railway station expressway over ... [plan]
  495. Environs [plan]
  496. Section - Circular Quay [plan]
  497. Environs - Bennelong Point, Quay, East Rocks [plan]
  498. Bus station alternative [plan]
  499. 3 level garage - covered way ... [plan]
  500. East Circular Quay [plan]
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright
• General note
  
  Photographers of these negatives have not been identified. Many show similiarities to Max Dupain's photographs of the Opera House (see those reproduced in Francoise Fromonot, "The Sydney Opera House", Electa, 1999).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823876
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some photonegatives are titled and annotated
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  architectural drawings
  architectural models
  construction sites
  
• Place
  Sydney Opera House (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Studio of Jorn Utzon - Museum of Sydney. Applies to: f.155a
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE951851

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