Sydney Opera House
In the pantheon of classic modern buildings, Utzon's creation has the status of myth. The myth states that the unknown Utzon, then in his 30s, submitted rough sketches - back-of-the-envelope stuff - to the competition judges, that he ignored most of the rules, that his design was only selected after being plucked at the last moment from the reject pile by one of the judges, architect Eero Saarinen, and that - the clincher, this - the design was un build able.
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Comment by Rennaisance on April 7, 2010 at 12:23am -
I guess that's the way all architects have to start to get his work in the position the Sydney Opera House is in today - we should do what we love to do and believe in, even it hasn't met all the rules and regulations at the first stage. We can be confident that if our work is to become noticed it will be because of the genuine art in it, not because of the scales and dimensions we have used on it.
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