Sydney National Opera House

1958. UTZON, Joern. Sydney National Opera House. 52 unnumbered leaves. Illustrated throughout with architectural diagrams and photographs. Large oblong folio, bound in a screwpost binding with clear plastic over printed wrappers. Copenhagen, Atelier Elektra, 1958. . An important document relating to one of the World's iconic bulildings, the Sydney Opera House. The book shows Utzon's concept for the building, presumably as submitted to the judges for the competition, since according to OCLC this is commonly known as the Red Book, and is a variant of the one shown on the New South Wales Museums website. Our copy has a different front cover and a blank rear cover. It also lacks the drawing they list as plate 4. Presumably it was later printed in a very small edition, with OCLC listing no copies in the US.