Jorn Utzon

In 2000 the Danish architect Jorn Utzon was awarded the Biennale's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, in 2003 the most prestigious award of the architectural world, the Pritzker Prize - and in 2008 the architect behind the Sydney Opera turns 90. In the same year the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, is presenting Utzon's work at the Architecture Biennale in Venice. For the occasion the catalogue that accompanied the museum's major retrospective Utzon exhibition in 2004 is being reissued. The catalogue features the observations of architects and architectural writers from Denmark and abroad who on the basis of Utzon's best known buildings and methods underscore how Utzon's view of architecture still opens up new horizons for generations of practicing architects to come.