Contents: Foreword by Jorn Utzon; Timeline of events; Introduction, Anne Watson; 'The Sydney Opera House's monumental appeal', Professor Richard Weston; 'The competition', Anne Watson; 'Second thoughts', Robert Geddes; 'New perspectives on the origins of Utzon's inspiration', Philip Drew; 'Computers and the Opera House', David Taffs with Matthew Connell; 'Technological achievements in engineering and construction', Dr John Nutt; 'The plywood story', Philip Nobis; 'Bring Utzon back', Anne Watson; 'Who built the Opera House?', Dr Sarah Gregson; 'Changing perspectives on the Opera House: the World Heritage nomination', Dr Bronwyn Hanna and Patricia Hale; 'Finishing a masterpiece: Utzon and the Opera House today'; Interview with Richard Johnson; Bibliography; Picture credits; About the authors; About the Powerhouse Museum; Index.
Anne Watson is Curator of Architecture and Design at the Powerhouse
Museum. She has written and lectured widely on many aspects of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century design.
Richard Weston is Professor of Architecture at Cardiff University,
editor of the refereed journal Architectural Research Quarterly
(arq) and director of the Richard Weston Studio design
consultancy.
Robert Geddes is an architect, teacher and urbanist. He is Dean
Emeritus of the Princeton University School of Architecture; LUCE
Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Urbanism and History at New
York University; Fellow of the New York Institute for the
Humanities and the National Academy of Design.
Philip Drew, formerly a senior lecturer in architectural history,
is a Sydney-based author and critic. He has written three books on
Sydney Opera House.
David Taffs is a Fellow of the Institutions of Civil and Structural
Engineers and the British Computer Society. He joined Ove Arup &
Partners in 1964 and was instrumental in developing software for
engineering design applications.
Matthew Connell is the senior curator of mathematics and computing
at the Powerhouse Museum.
Dr John Nutt AM retired as chairman of Ove Arup & Partners,
Consulting Engineers, in Australasia in 1999, having helped
establish the Sydney practice in 1963 after relocating from London
to manage the Opera House construction.
Philip Nobis is an architect based in the Blue Mountains west of
Sydney, Australia. In 1994-95 he co-curated the Unseen Utzon
exhibition at the Sydney Opera House with John Murphy of the State
Library of NSW.
'...The well-illustrated volume may become appreciated as an exemplary case study. It demonstrates the complexities of realizing a challenging building project; illuminates many subplots of the sotry, such as the entrepreneurial efforts of a pioneering plywood manufacturer; and provides insightful documentation, which at some point will allow this remarkable story to be remembered with greater dramatic interpretation. Recommended.' -Choice 'Building a Masterpiece is beautifully illustrated as befits a book about this most photogenic of buildings.' The Architectural Review
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