PHOTO:©HISAO SUZUKI
Certain slants of light
It took Jørn Utzon three years to develop the tiles that cover the shells of his Opera House in Sydney, and to make their interaction with the ever-changing daylight match his ideas.
Utzon’s Opera is only one of many examples for the sensibility of 20th century architects in their play with textures and light. Their often experimental treatment of material surfaces relates to such diverse factors as solidity and dematerialisation, the genius loci, the human perception and concerns about energy.
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