Can Lis – Utzon’s Hidden Masterpiece – Trailer II
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Enjoy a new trailer of our long-awaited Can Lis documentary, whilst we continue working on the full documentary!
‘Jørn Utzon loomed large in my own education, having originally studied in Sydney where the Opera House loomed large in the city’s imagination. I knew people who’d worked for him, and had been deeply affected by his profound and visionary skills as a designer, but also his humility. He was an architect who could reconcile the demands of Modernism with the sensitivities of climate, people, place and context, providing for many a way out of the overtly authoritarian dogma of the Modern Movement. In a way, if the Opera House – despite the attempts of the Australian Government at the time – is a heroic story of how a building can redirect the zeitgeist of a nation, the story of Can Lis is no less interesting, despite it being low key to the point of being almost anti-architecture. In many ways Can Lis is more interesting than the Opera House, and shows how great artists defy expectations and keep moving. It is less singular than the Opera House, full of nuances, full of a lifetime of the tacit knowledge of a mature and original thinker who kept wanting to move forward and in doing so, breaks all of the rules that strangled so many other more obvious buildings by the Modern greats. Somehow Can Lis is both ancient and modern, international and yet utterly regional and specific, a primitive shelter and a sophisticated manifesto for dwelling and making’.
Piers Taylor
Acknowledgements,
- Utzon Foundation
- Utzon Center
- Jesper Eis Eriksen
- Line Nørskov
- Antoni Alomar
- Jose Toral
- Gabriel Alomar
- Cris Ballester
- Carles Oliver
- Maria Razumova
- Claudius Gehr
And our team led by Juan A. Morillas, Piers Taylor (Invisible Studio), Francisco Cifuentes ‘Cifu’(Aulets Arquitectes, Javier Mejias, Javier Mogrera, Carolina Miyasaka, Ana Morillas, Monica Rodriguez
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