ABSTRACT
In Demark the sky is all, perhaps best exemplified in big spaces such as that experienced in Skagen, Northern Jutland, where the Baltic and North seas meet across a sand-spit. The horizon is apparently compressed and diminished by the weight of the sky; itself in a state of constant flux as weather patterns roll-in, adding to a sense of insignificance of the human scale that shrinks within the greater measure of the landscape. In Finland we switch the landscape parti sketch to portrait format. The orientation of the sheet is turned through 90º by the seemingly endless forests of pine and birch that lift our eyes from the horizon towards the skies. Colours of silver and green are only interrupted by slithers of glistening blue lakes. The challenge when examining Utzon's work and methods, was that he never subscribed to, or indeed was ascribed, a particular theoretical position.
