Silkeborg museum jorn utzon biography

I would like to dust off a project by architect Jørn Utzon which does not get to run and I especially find it extraordinary. Jørn Utzon (1918 -2008) it was a Danish architect, known for having completed the project and the Sydney Opera House as the winner of the Pritzker Prize 2003.

To Utzon his career revolves around two core beliefs: construction and landscape.


In 1953 the founder of the CoBrA group, Asger Jorn, donated their works to an existing small museum in the town of Silkeborg, next to this museum where there is a small garden where you will place the new museum project.

Utzon decided that the new museum is developed mainly buried with the intention of not interfering in the existing environment. According to the architect on the project report "the museum has a formal structure or cave oven, which gives the space a sense of involvement, using continuous forms, with the intention of creating a space that highlights the artistic pieces