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Title
Jorn Utzon, Sketches for a House in Sydney (1961)
Creator
Jorn Utzon, 1918-2008
Call number
PXA 1070
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1961-1965
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings
Reference code
447431
Physical Description
Architectural and Technical Drawings - architectural drawings (24 pencil sketches), comprising a sketch pad in two sections (9 leaves with 13 sketches and 17 leaves with 6 sketches) - 6 loose leaves (with 5 sketches). 13 leaves are blank. - in portfolio, 33.8 x 21.7 cm.
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Architect Jorn Utzon purchased 2.43 hectares of land in Kara Crescent, Bayview (northern suburbs of Sydney) in the early 1960s. He first submitted a development proposal to Warringah Council in February 1964. He hoped to develop a complex of three distinct units on the large site. The largest unit was the main living quarters, which was supported by a guest house for his two older children, and a studio. It was a proposal which worried the Council, who considered he was building two dwellings. Utzon submitted three more proposals, which considerably refined the initial design. Ultimately the residence was not built, because of his removal from the Opera House project in 1966. -- Reference Source: The masterpiece : Jorn Utzon : a secret life / Philip Drew. South Yarra, Vic. : Hardie Grant Books, 2001.
Scope and Content
Conceptual sketches for a residence, in Sydney, one is dated 7 June 1965.
Copying Conditions
Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
Approval for reproduction required:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
General note

Title from gilt-stamped black morocco label on cover of portfolio.
Leaves have been numbered 1-18 by Library. Blank leaves are not numbered.
These sketches appear to be preliminary ideas for the project, although one is dated 7 June 1965. However its core elements can be clearly discerned, with an early formulation of the distinctive plywood U-shaped beam (which was a key feature of the design) evident. Similarly the sketches show Utzon's working through the footprints of the various elements of the design on the site.-- Curator's acquisition notes, 2006 (ML06/84)
Digital order no:Album ID : 823684
Signatures / Inscriptions

Living Wing 7.6.65 1:100 B inscribed in pencil -- no.15
Topic
architectural drawings
houses
sketches
Place
Bayview (N.S.W.)
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