The
top shelf
Arup,
Sir Ove and Zunz, Jack. Sydney
Opera House: a paper on its design and construction. Sydney Opera House
Reprint Series no 1. Sydney: Sydney Opera House Trust, 1988
Published In conjunction with the Trust's Bicentennial exhibition, The
Building of the Century.
Drew,
Philip. The
masterpiece: Jørn Utzon, a secret life.
South Yarra: Hardie Grant, 1999. Biography of the architect. Includes
list of Sydney Opera House architectural staff and Utzon works and projects,
1944-1998.
Drew,
Phillip. Sydney
Opera House. London: Phaidon, 1995. Architecture in Detail series.
Drew,
Philip. Utzon
and the Sydney Opera House; as it happened 1918-2000. Sydney: Inspire Press,
2000. Chronology of the principal architect and building, with information on
costs, other personnel, changes to the building and events. See further details
and author's book launch speech.
Fromonot,
Francoise.
Jorn Utzon: the Sydney Opera House / translated from the French by Christopher
Thompson. Corte Madera, CA: Electra/Gingko, 1998.
Lawson,
Sylvia. The outside story: a novel. South Yarra, Vic: Hardie Grant, 2003.
"A powerful and witty intellectual mystery that tracks the ambitions,
politics and passion of a city. It is also a consummate meditation on a city's
and a country's becoming".
Mikami, Yuzo. Utzon's
sphere: Sydney Opera House - how it was designed and built. Photographs
by Osamu Murai. Tokyo, Shokokusha, 2001. See also review
of book by Paul Bentley.
Nobis,
Philip. Utzon’s
interiors for the Sydney Opera House.: the design development of the major and
minor hall 1958-1966.
A dissertation for the University of Technology, Sydney, 1994.
For further information: http://www.nobis.com.au
Sydney Opera House in its
harbour setting: nomination of Sydney Opera House in its harbour setting
for inscription on the World heritage List by the Government of Australia 1994
/ jointly prepared by the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Sports
and Territories and the NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning. [Glebe,
NW]: Historic Houses Trust of NSW for the Commonwealth Department of the
Environment, Sports and Territories and the NSW Department of Urban Affairs,
1996.
Sydney
Opera House Trust.
Annual reports. Track the performance of the House from 1961.
Sydney
Opera House Trust. Venue improvement plan. Sydney: Sydney Opera House
Trust, 2002
Sykes,
Jill. Sydney
Opera House from the outside in. Sydney: Sydney Opera House Trust in
association with Playbill, 1994.
Utzon,
Jørn. Descriptive
narrative: Sydney Opera House, January 1965. Describes the conception of the
building and intentions for the exteriors, glass walls, patrons’ access
foyers, auditoriums, administrative spaces and services.
Utzon,
Jørn. Sydney Opera House Utzon design principles. Sydney: Sydney Opera
House Trust, 2002.
Weston,
Richard. Utzon:
Inspiration, Vision, Architecture. Hellerupis: Edition Bløndal, 2002.
Yeomans,
John. The
other Taj Mahal. Camberwell:
Longman, 1973.
Traces the history, the political dramas and technical aspects of the
Opera House story up to 1973
