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A critical Study of the Aguda (Afro-Brazilians) Architectura...A Dynamic Management System for World Heritage Sites in FluxA Methodology of Reality Capture with M-BIM for Heritage Sit...A Study on Conservation of Historic Villages as “Living He...Adaptive Reuse of Trullo Structures: From Vernacular Archite...Al-Karkh in Verse and Game: Epistemological Center-Periphery...An Investigation into Rural Architecture and Cultural Contin...Art Across Time: An Australian Case StudyArt, Digital Heritage and RestitutionsAssessing the Heritage Values of the Cyprus Government Railw...Automating Intangible Heritage: Comparative Perspectives on ...Between Ghosts and Gambles: Heritage, Decadence, and the Amb...Beyond the lighthouse: lessons learned from a pilot project ...Bhutan: In Pursuit of a Sustainable WorldCairene Car-Culture: How are Automobility and Social Behavio...Canberra – Urban Infill and the Disappearance of the Bush ...Co-planning Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sp...Contemporary Heritage: Jørn Utzon’s Approach to Local Con...Continuity - preserving Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) and t...Cultural Positions : Heritage Administration and Political A...Cultural Resistance through Technological Adaptation: The Hy...Cupcakes and Curiosities: Backup Ukraine, Cultural Heritage ...Dayak’s Harvest Cultural Festival between Tradition and Cu...Decolonial Heritage Practices of Black Women in Chile and Co...Deconstructing Memory: Rethinking Kenter Theatre as a Multil...Designing for the Desert: Examining Contrast in Contemporary...Designing Nostalgia: Exploring Heritage as a Cultural and Em...Digital Community Co-creation as a Conduit for Addressing Sy...Digital Intimate Space: AR and VR in speculative future disp...Digital Perpetuation of Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Cros...Digitizing the Past: The Rise of 3D Scanning and Photogramme...Diriyah's Digital Echoes: How the artificial intelligence in...Early Republican Football Stadiums in Turkey Faced Conservat...Enhancing the Environmental Sustainability of Maritime Green...Game(over)tourism: World Heritage Status and Natural Sites b...Heritage Digitization: Case of Illaco House -Karachi : Pakis...Heritage of Wadi Hanifah: Navigating Socio-Cultural Complexi...Heritage Preservation and Interpretation – A Case Study o...Historicising Generative AI design models in Architecture Th...Imperial Shadows: Addressing Indigenous Exclusion in London...Industrial Heritage Reimagined: A Comparative Analysis of 20...Intersections of Digital Craft and Heritage: Computational T...Istanbul Design Museum at Suleymaniye as a Contested Heritag...Latent Connections: revealing what is in commons.Lights On! Illuminating Identity Through Shared Histories an...Locating the interface between traditional architecture and ...Milestones of (contested) memories: monuments and murals on ...Object Learning: A Journey Towards Active LearningOpen_Access: Democratising Dunedin’s HeritagePenn Center Studies: Iterative Documentation for Proactive P...Plastic Landscape: Plasticity and the Non-Human Temporalitie...Priest or Performer: Negotiating Subjectivity in Shaowu Nuo ...Public Art and the Urban EnvironmentReconstruction and Retouching of Polychromy on Stone Sculptu...Regeneration of Urban Cultural Landscapes: A Case Study of A...Reimagining Lisbon: The Convergence of Architectural, Urban,...Resurrecting Footprints: Re-interpreting Lost Heritage in Co...Revitalizing Heritage in Depopulating Regions: Challenges in...Reviving an Overlooked Art: The Historical and Cultural Sign...Rituals and Social Practices: The Symbolism of Traditional C...Sacred Land: Decolonial Ecologies and the Indigenous cultura...Shaping Commerce: The Evolution of Retail Architecture in Lo...Street and Contemporary Art in Post-Conflict Cities: Express...Surviving Heritage: Colonial Heritage and Counter-Colonial M...The Adoption of the "Garden City" Model in the City of São ...The Augmented Memory Palace: Embedding Cultural Narratives, ...The Hole - DelikThe Intention of Garden in Rooftops: Historical Continuities...The Lost Rivers of Te Whanganui-a-TaraThe Mutuality of Heritage Sites and Informal Settlements: A ...The Preservation of Cultural Heritage through Real Estate De...The role and impact of heritage practitioners within a triba...The Vokil Bench: Material Adaptation, Colonial Modernity, an...Transformation of Cultural Heritage Over Time – Current De...Unveiling the Hidden Narratives of Cities: The Role of the S...Using Heritage as a Tool. Enhancing Rural Areas through Arch...Voices: Music Heritage Reimagined through Machine singersWelcome and introduction
Schedule

VIRTUAL London Heritages Conference

Critical Questions – Contemporary Practice
Contemporary Heritage: Jørn Utzon’s Approach to Local Construction in His Residential Architecture
A. del Puerto García
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Abstract

The Danish architect Jørn Utzon designed a series of houses in Europe between the 1950s and the 1990s. His approach to these projects reflects a deep commitment to both the landscapes and the technical possibilities of each location. On one hand, there is a profound understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed by the surrounding natural environment. On the other hand, the local industry is regarded as the optimal supplier of materials, techniques, and labor. This responsiveness to context and construction is exemplified by the Middleboe House, where concrete and timber articulate a dialogue with the nearby river; by Can Lis in Mallorca, where local sandstone anchors the dwelling to the Mediterranean cliffs; and by the Kingo Houses, whose brick construction draws on traditional Danish building practices while promoting a modular and community-oriented layout. Through the study of the three houses built in very different landscape and sociocultural contexts, this research aims to highlight the architect’s respectful, optimistic, and rigorous approach to domestic architecture. This approach results in significant variability when addressing aesthetics, volume, programmatic needs, the extension of spaces to the outdoors, and construction details.

Biography

Adelaida del Puerto García: PhD Architect Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Università degli Studi di Firenze. Professor at the School of Architecture of Toledo at UCLM. Her research focuses on sustainability. She has organized international congresses and workshops in Toledo and has presented lectures at the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale and Universities such as the University for the Creative Arts of Surrey (UK), La Sapienza in Rome, Universidade Lusofona de Lisboa, the University of California, Arizona State University and Laussanne EPFL in Switzerland in 2025.