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(FAB08_129) An Appeal for Modernism: Sigfried Gideon and the Sydney Opera House
Goad, Philip (1997-07) (FAB08_129) An Appeal for Modernism: Sigfried Gideon and the Sydney Opera House. Fabrications : The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 8 : 129-145.
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| Author(s) |
Goad, Philip
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| Title |
(FAB08_129) An Appeal for Modernism: Sigfried Gideon and the Sydney Opera House
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| Journal name |
Fabrications : The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
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| Publication date |
1997-07
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8
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129
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145
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| Editor(s) |
Frith, Stephen
Goad, Philip
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310105 History of the Built Environment
430101 History - Australian
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| Abstract |
The chequered history of the design and eventual completion of the Sydney Opera House from 1957 until 1973 is well known.' From the mythical plucking of Jorn Utzon's drawings from a
discarded pile of competition entries by Eero Saarinen2, to the startling form of the design conceived by the young Danish architect who had built so little. from the tense and protracted period of
refining the design, to the political furore over cost and time overruns, to finally the architect leaving Australia never to return: these events are now all the stuff of legend, even tragic
theatre. The building has subsequently become an icon, not just of Sydney but of Australia's entry onto the world architectural scene in the early 1960s. But the Sydney Opera House should also be
regarded as a prophetic icon of the delicate state of architectural production in the last half of the twentieth century.
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Sydney Opera House
Sigfried Gideon
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