Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Architect                          

Selected works:

Major built projects:

Water tower in Svaneke, Bornholm, Denmark, 1949 - 1951
Architect's own house, Hellebæk, Denmark, 1950 - 1952
Middelboe house, Holte, Denmark, 1953 - 1955
Kingohusene, courtyard housing in Elsinore, 1956 - 1960
Elineberg Housing, Helsingborg, Sweden, 1954 - 1966. Built by Swedish partners Erik and Henry Andersson 
Planetstaden housing project in Lund, Sweden, 1956 - 1958. Built by Swedish partners Erik and Henry Andersson.
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, 1956 - 1973
Fredensborghusene, courtyard housing, Fredensborg, Denmark, 1959 - 1965 
Melli Bank, Tehran, Iran, 1959 - 1960
Hammershøj care centre, Elsinore, Denmark, 1962 - 1966. Built by Birger Schmidt
Bagsværd Church, Bagsværd, Denmark, 1968 - 1976
Espansiva building system, pre-fabricated single family houses, Denmark, 1969
Can Lis, Architect's own house, Majorca, Spain, 1971 - 1973 
National Assembly of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait, 1972 - 1984 
Paustian Furniture Store, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1985 - 1987 
Can Feliz, Majorca, Spain, 1991 - 1994

Major unbuilt projects:

High School in Elsinore, Denmark, 1958 - 1962
Architect's own house, Bayview, Sydney, Australia, 1963 - 1965
Museum dedicated to the work of artist Asger Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark, 1963
Theatre, Zurich, Switzerland, 1964 - 1970
Jeita Theatre, Lebanon, 1968
Stadium, Jedda, Saudi Arabia, 1969

Literature:

Interview with Utzon, October 1992
Arkitektur - magazine, Copenhagen 1947 #7–9, essay Tendenser i nutidens arkitektur by Jørn Utzon and Tobias Faber
Arkitektur - magazine, Copenhagen 1970 #1, essay Additiv arkitektur by Jørn Utzon
Zodiac 5 - magazine, Milan 1959

Zodiac 10 - magazine, Milan 1962, essay Platforms and Plateaus: Ideas of a Danish Architec

Zodiac 14 - magazine, Milan 1965
Sigfried Gideon: Space, Time and Architecture. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1967
Kenneth Frampton: Studies in Tectonic Culture. Cambridge, Mass. & London: MIT Press, 1995
Françoise Fromonot: Jørn Utzon, The Sydney Opera House. Corte Madera, California - 1998
Richard Weston: Utzon - Inspiration, Vision, Architecture. Denmark: Edition Bløndal, 2002
J.J. Ferrer Forés: Jørn Utzon. Obras y Proyectos. Works and Projects. Spain - 2006

Awards and recognition:

In 2003, he received the Pritzker Prize, by the Hyatt Foundation, one of the world's premier architecture prizes, awarded to a  living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of the qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.
The Pritzker is sometimes referred to as "the Nobel Prize of Architecture.                          

The Sydney Opera House was Jørn's first non-domestic project. 

Jorn Utzon won the competition to design the Sydney Opera House,a competition organised by the then Labor Premier, Jack Renshaw.  

The next Premier,  Robert Askin, a Liberal,  was a vocal critic of the design by Joern.  

Joern Utzon was forced to redesign by David Hughes, Miniser for Public Works, a Country Party politician, who had no knowledge or interest in Architecture, and had been called a fraud and a phillistine