The Architectural Concepts

Jørn Utzon

Concept: A marriage of form and function.

The son of a naval engineer, he spent his formative years in his father's ship yard in Alborg drawing, making and racing yachts. These experiences taught Utzon about the relationship between form and performance – form following function.Utzon was not preoccupied with the forms nature produced, nor was he concerned with some kind of organic aesthetic. Rather, he was interested in nature's generating principles. He draws inspiration from nature for organic form and creates an architecture that is predominantly experiential in character.

Richard Leplastrier

Concept: A mechanism for gathering and community.

Richard materialize the idea of the house as a camp extension, space reduced to the minimum, in that conveying the same hospitality and laidback lifestyle typical of people, the basic nature of their early settlements and the idea of gathering around a hearth to celebrate a social rite. Finally, Richard extraordinarily fit the Australian preference for outdoor living, challenging conventional standards of comfort and physically connecting man to nature by exposing him to rain, wind, sun, sounds and smells。