Let’s remember Dane architect Jørn Utzon on his 100th anniversary, mainly remembered for one architecture icon, perhaps the world’s most iconic building. He won the Sydney Opera House in a competition he won in 1957, and was driven to resign from the project ten years later while being blamed for the soaring costs. Queen Elizabeth II was invited to the grand opening in 1973 while he was not. Yet, this building had come to capture the imagination of the world long before the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Louis Kahn famously said on the Opera House that ‘The sun did not know how beautiful its light was, until it was reflected off this building.” Top photograph: Hamilton Lund
