The Theatre-Temple on Sydney Harbour

The Opera House is most often regarded as a high point of European modernism. Yet beyond this, something deep, harking back to antiquity, has always haunted Utzon’s conception of the building as a spiritual venue. Beneath those blindingly white sails resides the ghost of sacred geometry summoned from Mayan and Greek prototypes

Mark Horn & Peter Proudfoot

May 08 2021

17 mins