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Jørn Utzon
Jørn Utzon studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and worked in Sweden and with Alvar Aalto in Finland.
Background & practice
Jørn Utzon studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and worked in Sweden and with Alvar Aalto in Finland. His international travels informed a career best known for the Sydney Opera House. The Pritzker biography also records housing at Kingo and Fredensborg and Bagsvaerd Church in Denmark. It explains that he left the opera-house project in 1966, before its completion in 1973.
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