Public lecture with Line Nørskov Eriksen, Utzon Center, Aalborg
Maybe the future holds another masterpiece on a par with the Sydney Opera House? An international competition launched by the Utzon Center in celebration of Jørn Utzon’s centennial anniversary invites young creative talents to reimagine the Danish architect Jørn Utzon’s (1918-2008) working drawings for some of his unbuilt works.
Throughout his life, Jørn Utzon insisted on the absolute importance of architecture. According to Utzon, architecture was not just a passive backdrop for people’s lives, but a form of art purposed to organise and mediate the experience of dwelling authentically, poetically. He was brilliant and uncompromising in his work, and this was partly why so many of his projects remain unreleased.
The new international competition, UNBUILT, sets out to shine some light on dignified and meaningful projects that never left the drawing board. For the purpose of the competition, Utzon Center is opening up a treasure chest of his designs hidden in his personal archives inviting today’s talents to analyse, interpret and visualise design of significant projects using digital drawing tools. As an introduction to the competition, the lecture will offer an in-depth conversation about the architectural intentions that underpin the work and manner by Jørn Utzon. We shall be discussing the way in which his approach evolved, his sources of inspirations, experiences of influence and works of significance.
Utzon Center Aalborg DK
I mari di plastica. Una esposizione-denuncia sulla situazione degli oceani.
CONCERT WITH DUO NIHZ IN UTZON CENTRE AALBORG DENMARK 2016
This video contains an excerpt from a live concert recording of a guitar festival concert in the Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark. Starring Duo NIHZ from Holland (Bobby Rootveld & Sanna van Elst) with a special guest musician. The music is also special and well executed for guitar and flute. Video is very surprising.
Denne video indeholder et uddrag fra en live koncert optagelse af en guitar festival koncert i Utzon Center i Aalborg, Danmark. Medvirkende Duo NIHZ fra Holland (Bobby Rootveld & Sanna van Elst) med en særlig gæste musiker. Musikken er også speciel og flot udført for guitar og fløjte. Video er meget overraskende.
Production: KLOK PHOTOGRAPHY VIDEO PRODUCTION
Camera and sound: KJELD KLOK & BODIL ELISABETH URSIN
Editing: BODIL ELISABETH URSIN
Redaktion: UK@NYPOST.DK
© Copyright DK 2016
Utzon Center
Minecraft med VR-hjälm.
Arkitekturpolitik Aalborg Utzon
Aalborg Kommune oplever et byggeboom - og politikerne har pudset arkitekturpolitikken af. Den vises frem til juni 2015 på Utzon Center, hvor du kan se og læse mere om bl.a. Karolinelund, ungdomsboligerne, Eternitten, åbningen af Østerå, Østre Havn, Godsbanen og meget mere. Der er gratis adgang.
Medvirkende: Jens Toft-Nielsen (SF), By og Landskabsudvalget
A&D-STUDERENDE I NORDJYLLAND LIVE
Den første udgave af nordjylland LIVE gik i luften den 1. oktober 2014, hvor de tre A&D-studerende, der er designerne bag det nye tv-studie til TV2/Nord, var i studiet sammen med deres studieleder, Henrik Harder.
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Aalborg 2017 - byliv
Mærk byens puls - se stemningsbilleder fra Aalborgs havnefront, Musikkens Hus, Utzon Center..
Fibonacci Design Utzon Center Aalborg
At Aalborg University a group of students at Architecture & Design made this video as a presentation of their product. The product is a light installation in Aalborg Utzon Center and is based on the fibonacci sequence. Take a look, we hope you'll enjoy :)
Aalborg på Tegnebordet - HLA Exhibition Utzon Center 2011
Exhibition video of art production Aalborg på Tegnebrættet for Henning Larsen Architects exhibition at Utzon Center Aalborg, Dec. 2011 to Jan. 2012. Art installation made by Tanja Jensen and Marlene Rask In collaboration with Det nye sort advertising and institute for art and technology, Aalborg University. Project coordinators, Marie Hildebrandt, Jakob Sabra and Mads Kim Jensen. Video produced by Mads Kim Jensen
Kunsten, Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
Created on July 18, 2010 using FlipShare.
Louis Becker Interview: On Jørn Utzon
“He was outstanding in his time. He would be in trouble the way the world looks now.” In this video, Danish architect Louis Becker, of Henning Larsen Architects, describes the renowned architect Jørn Utzon – who would have turned 100 in 2018 – as “a mystic” within the profession, working in unattainable ways.
At the School of Architecture in Copenhagen, Utzon was presented as “sacrosanct but also unapproachable,” which created a sort of distance to him. Becker feels that Utzon was uncompromising in two ways – he didn’t care about the business side of things, and he was unbending in his way of working: “But we don't know, because if you’re a mystic, we wouldn’t know if there are compromises in what’s produced. I think sometimes we assign things to Utzon, which aren’t there.” Becker adds that he’s sure that Utzon too went through a process, but that this process was a private project.
Becker highlights Utzon’s Bagsværd Church as unique – “something very Nordic and a little mystic.” In continuation of this, he shares Utzon’s love of travelling, which he finds crucial: “The absolutely most important thing is to have your own concepts challenged.” Seeing Utzon’s National Assembly Building in Kuwait, Becker was fascinated by how Utzon reads Arabic culture: “That building is more Arabic than 99 per cent of the Arabic buildings around it. That’s because he reads it from the outside and translates it with his own culture, with a Nordic approach and that becomes the parliament in Kuwait.”
Louis Becker (b. 1962) is a Danish architect and the Design Principal and partner at Henning Larsen Architects. In 2008, Becker was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Aalborg University Institute of Architecture, Design and Media Technology. In 2011, he was awarded the Eckersberg Medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in recognition of his excellent contributions to elevating the global presence of Danish Architecture. Among the many prestigious projects of Henning Larsen Architects are Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus, Denmark, Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center in Reykjavik, Iceland and Siemens’ Global Headquarters in Munich, Germany.
Jørn Utzon (b.1918-d.2008) was a Danish Pritzker Prize-winning architect responsible for notable buildings such as the Sydney Opera House (1973) in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site in 2007, Utzon became the second person to have received such recognition for a work during his lifetime. Other noteworthy buildings by Utzon include Bagsværd Church in Denmark (1976) and the National Assembly Building in Kuwait (1982).
Louis Becker was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at Henning Larsen Architects. The interview is part of a collaboration with the Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark in connection with Utzon’s 100th birthday in April 2018.
Camera: Klaus Elmer
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Cover photo: Kuwait National Assembly Building, Courtesy of Utzon Center/Utzon Archives
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2018
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Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter: On Jørn Utzon
Meet the young Danish architect duo, Søren Johansen and Sebastian Skovsted, who together form Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter. They here talk about their extolled colleague Jørn Utzon (b. 1918-d.2008), whose architecture they feel reflects something existential: “It’s admirable that it’s not just about the location in relation to its surroundings, but also the location in a larger context. We’re on Earth underneath the sun, the moon and the stars.”
Johansen and Skovsted argue that Utzon’s love of primordial destinations and travelling ensured that he didn’t have a Eurocentric view on architecture. Also, he learned a lot about people’s universal need to place themselves in a certain relation to the landscape, which is reflected in the way his buildings recurrently are in relation to the horizon. Utzon studied Chinese pagodas, Egyptian pyramids and Indian temples as well as anonymous, basic necessary structures, “architecture without architects”, such as mills. Moreover, this understanding of people meant that he was a Danish architect when building in Denmark, and an Iranian architect when building in Iran. An example of this being his way of using light when building the Melli bank in Teheran, Iran and when building the Fredensborg Houses in Fredensborg, Denmark.
On one hand, Johansen and Skovsted argue, Utzon worked with details, and on the other side, he had these great ideas about what it means to be a human being in the world – and these two sides complement each other: “That’s what makes him an artist per se.” His way of being a human being in the world permeates his buildings, and they feel that even if he hadn’t won the commission for the Sydney Opera House in Australia, he has an impressive range of buildings, such as Can Lis on Mallorca, Spain, and Bagsværd Church in Denmark, and would still be an extremely important architect. There’s something related to being human, something existential, in all of Utzon’s buildings, and e.g. Can Lis reflects this.
Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter is founded by the two Danish architects Søren Johansen and Sebastian Skovsted. The office seeks to bridge the gap between contemporary building processes and materials, and basic architectural values, through a synthesis of ideas, techniques and manufacturing methods. Among their projects are Skjern River Pump Stations in Skjern, Denmark and a unique series of projects for The Danish Nature Agency on the Ringkøbing Fjord in Tipperne, Denmark, including an observation tower, a bird sanctuary, a workshop, and a renovation of a former house to a research and exhibition space. Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter has received prestigious awards including The Crown Prince Couple’s Stardust Award 2016 and The Bisballe Foundation Honorary Award 2015. Moreover, they were shortlisted for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award: EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture, 2017. For more see:
Jørn Utzon (b.1918-d.2008) was a Danish Pritzker Prize-winning architect responsible for notable buildings such as the Sydney Opera House (1973) in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site in 2007, Utzon became the second person to have received such recognition for a work during his lifetime. Other noteworthy buildings by Utzon include Bagsværd Church in Denmark (1976) and the National Assembly Building in Kuwait (1982).
Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter were interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at their office in Copenhagen, Denmark. The interview is part of a collaboration with the Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark in connection with Utzon’s 100th birthday in April 2018.
Camera: Simon Weyhe
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Cover photo: Can Lis, Mallorca by Jørn Utzon
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Hiroshi Sambuichi Interview: On Jørn Utzon
Japanese architect Hiroshi Sambuichi is considered one of the foremost green architects of our time. In this short video, he poetically describes how spending three days at Danish architect Jørn Utzon’s masterly house on Mallorca, Can Lis, made an everlasting impression and “felt almost like getting a letter from him.”
If Utzon had lived in the 21st century, Sambuichi would have liked to talk with him about “nature, the moving materials and themes like that.” He is sure that Utzon as an architect was also influenced by nature, albeit being an architect in the 20th century his approach to nature was different from now.
The two architectural places that Sambuichi envies are Miyajima Itsukushima Shrine, which is part of his childhood, and Utzon’s Sydney Opera House: “If I were to choose two places, it would be this old and this modern one.” He also admires Utzon’s house on Mallorca, Can Lis, where he stayed for three nights: “When I stayed there, the moon was full. The feeling I experienced there and the moon over Miyajima are two of the most beautiful experiences I’ve had with architecture.” Moreover, his stay at Can Lis made him feel as if he understood Utzon’s way of thinking: “In this way, he’s conveying something beyond time. And I feel as if his architecture is like a letter for me.”
Hiroshi Sambuichi (三分一インタビュー ) (b.1968) is a Japanese architect, who is considered one of the top experimentalists of sustainable architecture, creating a symbiosis between nature and architecture. Built upon both personal intuition and scientific investigations, his architecture attains a rare balance between poetics and science. In 2001 Sambuichi established Sambuichi Architects. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. In 2017 he was awarded the Wallpaper* Design Award for Naoshima Hall.
Jørn Utzon (b.1918-d.2008) was a Danish Pritzker Prize-winning architect responsible for notable buildings such as the Sydney Opera House (1973) in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site in 2007, Utzon became the second person to have received such recognition for a work during his lifetime. Other noteworthy buildings by Utzon include Bagsværd Church in Denmark (1976) and the National Assembly Building in Kuwait (1982).
Hiroshi Sambuichi was interviewed by Christian Lund at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in August 2017. The interview is part of a collaboration with the Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark in
connection with Utzon’s 100th birthday in April 2018.
Translator: Alex Hummel Lee, project leader & partner, Sambuichi Architects
Camera: Rasmus Quistgaard
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Cover photo: Jørn Utzon’s house Can Lis on Mallorca. Courtesy of Torben Eskerod/ Utzon Center/Utzon Archives
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Oktay Nayman Interview: On Jørn Utzon
“He was a person that was able to see more than other people.” Meet Turkish architect Oktay Nayman, who talks about what it was like to be Danish architect Jørn Utzon’s senior assistant for seven years, at a time of major projects such as the Sydney Opera house and the Kuwait National Assembly Building.
During a month of summer holidays, Utzon asked Nayman to go visit Alvar Aalto in Finland – and bring a book and a big bottle of brandy. Aalto, as it turned out, had also closed his offices for the holidays, but though he didn’t get to see him, Nayman spent his time visiting Aalto’s various completed buildings: “This was a way of educating a young assistant.”
“I can say that if I knew two things about architecture, two of them I learned from Jørn. He was such a source of inspiration.” Nayman was in awe of Utzon’s colourful imagination and tremendously perceptive approach. When the Danish architect started working, he referred to the enormous visual library, which was at the back of his mind: “He had this unbelievable treasure of visual impressions that he liked as well as didn’t like.”
Oktay Nayman (b. 1937) is a Turkish architect and the founder of Nayman Architects in Istanbul. In 1962 he joined the atelier of Jørn Utzon and worked with him for seven years as one of his senior assistants in all of his projects during this period, including his well-known major works such as the Sydney Opera House and Kuwait National Assembly Building. In 1969 Nayman joined the office of Colin St. John Wilson in London to work on the new British National Library project. After several years abroad, Nayman returned to Istanbul in 1991 where he completed important projects, such as the indoor theme park Tatilya (1993-96), which was the largest facility of its kind in Europe. For this project, he was presented with the European Steel Design award by ECCS in 1997, the first architect in Turkey to receive such recognition.
Jørn Utzon (b.1918-d.2008) was a Danish Pritzker Prize-winning architect responsible for notable buildings such as the Sydney Opera House (1973) in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site in 2007, Utzon became the second person to have received such recognition for a work during his lifetime. Other noteworthy buildings by Utzon include Bagsværd Church in Denmark (1976) and the National Assembly Building in Kuwait (1982).
Oktay Nayman was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark in October 2017. The interview is part of a collaboration with the Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark in connection with Utzon’s 100th birthday in April 2018.
Camera: Klaus Elmer
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Cover photo: Jørn Utzon in Hellebæk in the 1960s. Courtesy of Utzon Center/Utzon Archives
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
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AH Langagervej HG.mp4
Aalborg Handelsskole Langagervej lavede bogstaver på Utzon center i Aalborg. Det var en god dag som afslutning på vores intro-forløb
Utzon julemix
bjalderklang glædelig jul Utzon
Lene Tranberg Interview: On Jørn Utzon
The legendary Danish architect Jørn Utzon – most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House – would have turned 100 in 2018. In this video, award-winning architect Lene Tranberg shares her love for “the architect who has made the most impact on me and my generation.”
“He understands how to work with metaphors so that each building is embedded with fantastic narratives,” says Tranberg of Utzon, whom she feels had a fundamental approach, which never leaves you doubting his standpoint, and whose work you can keep exploring. On a recent visit to Utzon’s remarkable architect’s house Can Feliz (1994) in Mallorca, Tranberg was fascinated by its playfulness despite its complex nature, and how the outdoor pulse seems to be embedded in the building: “He totally disregarded the architectural norms. He just did what he thought was right, and it’s so convincing.”
Tranberg considers Utzon’s Sydney Opera House one of the biggest masterpieces ever created, “up there with the pyramids, and more powerful even because it’s such a social project with a well-defined hierarchy.” One of its many strengths is that it is as much part of the landscape as it is a building, and this, she feels, has something to do with spirituality as a part of Utzon’s outlook. On the other hand, the grand Danish architect was also unsentimental about his work, keeping a focus on the construction: “He didn't put airs about his work. But he had an eye for placing one brick on top of the other in a unique way.” Moreover, Utzon never forgot the importance of playing, and though he didn’t aim to build monuments, they arose as a result of playfulness.
Lene Tranberg (b. 1956) is a Danish architect and the head architect and co-founder of Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects, which is responsible for a number of high-profile buildings in Copenhagen, including the Tietgen Student Hall and the Royal Danish Playhouse. Tranberg began teaching at the Royal Academy of Architecture in 1986 and was employed there as a lector from 1989 to 1998. She has held numerous positions in the world of Danish architecture, including CEO of the Danish Architecture Centre from 1998 to 2002. Tranberg is the recipient of the prestigious awards such as the Eckersberg Medal (1994), C.F. Hansen Medal (2005) and Prince Eugen Medal for Architecture (2014). For more see:
Jørn Utzon (b.1918-d.2008) was a Danish Pritzker Prize-winning architect responsible for notable buildings such as the Sydney Opera House (1973) in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site in 2007, Utzon became the second person to have received such recognition for a work during his lifetime. Other noteworthy buildings by Utzon include Bagsværd Church in Denmark (1976) and the National Assembly Building in Kuwait (1982).
Lene Tranberg was interviewed by Christian Lund in April 2017 at a private home (by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects) in Hellerup, Denmark. The interview is part of a collaboration with the Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark in connection with Utzon’s 100th birthday in April 2018.
Camera: Jakob Solbakken
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2017
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metrolpolzone leisure park
university project at aalborg university denmark
deparment of architecture and design
urban design
this project is a tranformation of a street in Copenhagen called Nyropsgade.
Kasba Utzon center arkitektur og design årgang 2011
Denne film viser nedrivning af opbygget kasba bestående af papkasser. Den er bygget på aalborg universitet i Utzoncenterets lokaler af årgang 2011.