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Jørn Utzon

Jørn Utzon

Danish Modern architect was born in Copenhagen, 1918. He studied at the Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, under Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen (1937-42), and spent the war years 1942-5 with Gunnar Asplund. In 1946 he visited Alvar Aalto in Helsinki. He traveled in Europe (1947-8) and the USA and Mexico (1949), then established [...]