Jørn Utzon helped define the orbit of architecture in the 20th century, and he remains a star in the contemporary firmament as last year's winner of the Pritzker Prize. This month an overview of the visionary Dane's trajectory comes to the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, where a large collection of his models, drawings, and other works including furniture, describe the comet of an extraordinary creative career. In his responses to ancient cultures – Mayan, Islamic, Chinese, and Japanese – we find strict geometry combined with curved shapes in a bid always "to be on the edge of the possible." The Sydney Opera House shines at the center of an international oeuvre that includes such diverse works as the ultra-modern Bagsvaerd church with lyrical ceilings of glass, the stone acropolis of a house in Majorca, the Kuwait National Assembly where tent fabric becomes a metaphor for concrete, and communities of contemporary housing capturing views of the landscape while maintaining interior privacy. The Louisiana, Denmark's top modern art museum known for stunning coastal sculpture gardens 22 miles from Copenhagen, makes the ideal site for this exploration of Utzon's working method as process, and on his sources of inspiration.
GEOFFREY COFFEY

Jørn Utzon: The Architect's Universe
April 2 - August 29
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
louisiana.dk