{"id":151526,"date":"2025-03-27T19:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/?p=151526"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:19:27","slug":"can-lis-jorn-utzon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/stories\/can-lis-jorn-utzon\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Lis, J\u00f8rn Utzon"},"content":{"rendered":" \t\t
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Celebrated as one of the last century\u2019s most iconic homes, the compound served as J\u00f8rn Utzon\u2019s family residence for over two decades, following his work on the Sydney Opera House. Can Lis, J\u00f8rn Utzon<\/i>, the latest book in our architecture series, guides readers from early plans for Can Lis to the everyday ways the home shaped Utzon\u2019s close connection to nature.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nA new film by Mar\u00eda Sosa Betancor, inspired by our book, sets Can Lis against the salt spray of mar\u00e9s shores, offering an intimate look at the island that inspired the home\u2019s design. Panoramic views of Can Lis accompany archival photos and footage of Utzon and his family as they inhabited the home. Drawn from their time on the ground in Mallorca, Line N\u00f8rskov Davenport, director of exhibitions at the Utzon Center, and Phillipp Materna, head of brand and design at Ferm Living, provide a glimpse of life along the sea. Below, Line reflects on the sanctuary that Utzon found in Mallorca in an exclusive excerpt from Can Lis, J\u00f8rn Utzon<\/i>.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"full","gallery":[151783]},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","quote":"A Nod to Paradise","caption":"An essay by Line N\u00f8rskov Davenport"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"In Sydney, J\u00f8rn Utzon made an early<\/span>\u2014<\/span>and largely unknown<\/span>\u2014<\/span>sketch of the life he wanted to create.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe paper is covered in vivid <\/span>scenes<\/span> of sprawling terraces and the soaring roofs <\/span>of<\/span> a home on sloping terrain, <\/span>backed by<\/span> a rugged <\/span>coastal<\/span> landscape. <\/span>S<\/span>oft pencil lines are full of thoughts that grow like reeds and grass in new directions, but a small drawing at the edge of the <\/span>paper<\/span> nurtures something more elemental.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nUtzon has depicted himself and his wife, Lis, naked under a sky full of the intense southern sun. Like Poseidon and Aphrodite, they are eating grapes and playing music on an open terrace. Is this paradise?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nBack in his native Denmark, Utzon had already built a remarkable home<\/span> surrounded by forest <\/span>for himself and his family. As the country<\/span>\u2019s <\/span>first open-plan <\/span>house<\/span>, the Helleb\u00e6k House (1952) was received as something of a revelation, and yet the <\/span>home<\/span> was clearly inundated with a<\/span>n <\/span>intuitive, crafty, and unpedigreed approach to modern building <\/span>in line<\/span> with Utzon\u2019s personal manner<\/span>.<\/span> H<\/span>owever, when <\/span>he <\/span>move<\/span>d<\/span> to Australia in 1962 to oversee the construction of the Sydney Opera House, <\/span>he started<\/span> planning something that appears more deliberately <\/span>fundamental<\/span>, as if <\/span>bent<\/span> on elevating a <\/span>quiet<\/span> life in nature to a nearly religious experience.<\/span>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[151716,151745,151714,151715,153045,151718]},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_blocks","block_sizes":"half_50_50","content_type_left":"image","image_size_left":"regular","image_left":151717,"video_left_url":"","video_caption_left":"","video_left_type":false,"text_left":"","credit_image":null,"credit_link_left":null,"content_type_right":"image","image_size_right":"regular","image_right":151713,"video_right_url":"","video_caption_right":"","video_right_type":false,"text_right":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"A NEW ARCHITECTURE\r\n\r\nP<\/span>lans for the Australian home<\/span>, now<\/span> referred<\/span> to as the Bayview House (1962<\/span>\u2013<\/span>66)<\/span>, <\/span>were scrapped when political pressure from the <\/span>g<\/span>overnment of New South Wales <\/span>prompted<\/span> Utzon<\/span> to leave Australia <\/span>abruptly <\/span>in 1966. For several years, the family moved around<\/span>\u2014<\/span>perhaps a little rootlessly<\/span>\u2014<\/span>between Denmark, Sweden, and Hawaii, but the intention to settle by the sea lived on<\/span>. W<\/span>hen <\/span>the chance<\/span> for<\/span> a more perm<\/span>anent residence <\/span>came along, the Bayview sketch offered a preliminary concept for<\/span> Can Lis (1971<\/span>\u2013<\/span>73)<\/span>, <\/span>widely recognised as one of the most important homes of late<\/span>-20th century<\/span> architecture.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[151550]},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"full","gallery":[151793]},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"In Utzon\u2019s view, the meditative and organic character of Can Lis can be linked to an instinct for humanist ideals that emerged in the aftermath of two World Wars. <\/span>\u2018We were optimistic because the war was over\u2019,<\/span> Utzon recalled, but the terror of the war also resulted in a widely shared impulse to begin again, to find restoration in nature, and to push the discourse of modern architecture beyond the \u2018Corbusier-defined white boxes\u2019 that now seemed so reductive and sterile. Utzon and his Nordic fellows had seen \u2018Dresden bombed flat during the Second World War\u2019. His mentor, Alvar Aalto, had witnessed the destruction of towns and cities in Finland. \u2018He saw them all burn, saw his Finnish friends in the ultimate distress\u2019, Utzon wrote. \u2018He had seen them seek shelter under sheets of corrugated iron\u2019.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhile modern architecture in Europe had evolved with a reverence for functionalism and the technocratic possibilities of industrialisation, Utzon and other pioneers of a distinctly Nordic approach to modernism began considering the importance of \u2018a poetic superstructure\u2019, as the Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund put it. That structure included a pragmatic responsiveness towards <\/span>local traditions and materials, forging a sense of place, reintroducing sculptural qualities, and a richness of details <\/span>and <\/span>symbolic qualities. <\/span>These architects travelled extensively for inspiration, hoping <\/span>to restore an existential foothold for architecture, a sense of belonging in contemporary building. While earlier generations had entertained the idea of breaking away from history completely, Utzon <\/span>came<\/span> to understand himself as part of a historical continuum<\/span>\u2014a modern approach that insisted on something as timeless as creating spaces that nurture the soul. <\/span>\r\n\u00a0<\/span>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[151536]},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[151540]},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"SAND, SEA, SUN\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhen an architect designs and builds for himself, he has the opportunity to go to the edge of his own imagination. This is especially true when it comes to Can Lis, which feels both \u2018new\u2019 and <\/span>timeless, more closely<\/span> linked to <\/span>Utzon\u2019<\/span>s deep affinity for topographical villages in Morocco, Mexico<\/span>\u2019s <\/span>platform temples, and <\/span>monasteries<\/span> in<\/span> Japan than most of his other buildings.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nAccording to popular <\/span>lore<\/span>, <\/span>the Utzons<\/span> found the <\/span>cliffside where Can Lis rests<\/span> on a drive along small country roads. Lis, who had a flair for languages, asked some local farmers if there <\/span>was<\/span> any land for sale in the area. <\/span>Out of three available plots<\/span>, the couple bought two, including a <\/span>rocky outcropping on <\/span>a cliffside that overlooks the endlessness of the <\/span>Mediterranean<\/span> Sea<\/span> 20 <\/span>metres<\/span> below. <\/span>From the road, Can Lis doesn\u2019t attract much attention. T<\/span>he architect has deliberately hidden his sanctuary behind high, sandy walls, but when a small gate opens and your gaze is fixed on la media luna, the crescent moon, you know immediately that this a place for dwelling poetically.\u00a0<\/span>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_blocks","block_sizes":"half_50_50","content_type_left":"image","image_size_left":"regular","image_left":151754,"video_left_url":"","video_caption_left":"","video_left_type":false,"text_left":"","credit_image":null,"credit_link_left":null,"content_type_right":"image","image_size_right":"regular","image_right":151759,"video_right_url":"","video_caption_right":"","video_right_type":false,"text_right":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[151403,151689,151723,151724,151719,151753]},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"Sprawling in two directions, Can Lis is a single compound made up of smaller, detached structures built from stone blocks cut directly from the rock on which the <\/span>house<\/span> stands<\/span>. All the functions of <\/span>home<\/span> are divided into separate domains: a kitchen with an adjoining courtyard, a living room, a dormitory, and a small atrium appear as individual houses in a village-like complex linked by small terraces, plateaus, and paths. The scale is surprisingly small, almost intimate. Beds are <\/span>recessed<\/span> into walls<\/span>. T<\/span>here is a small pantry, a dining area, and a space for cooking, which is arguably spartan. <\/span>There is no TV room<\/span>, no pool are<\/span>a, no heating other than a single fireplace.<\/span> It is in many ways a challenging house where certain modern comforts are purposefully omitted. Can Lis is a place to delight in the little things<\/span>:<\/span> t<\/span>he golden light that gives the porous walls visual depth<\/span>, t<\/span>he changing seasons<\/span>,<\/span> s<\/span>wimming in the sea<\/span>, w<\/span>atching a sunrise. The architecture is down-to-earth and unpretentious, yet a cosmic feeling emphasises that this is not a house: <\/span>I<\/span>t\u2019s a temple.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[151546]},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"\u2018HAPPINESS IS COUNTED IN SECONDS\u2019\r\n\r\nA mysterious mix, Can Lis is both grounded and sublime. There\u2019s a classic<\/span> order here, and you sense how elemental forces linger in everything. The house\u2019s anchor, the living room, is perhaps the best example of this duality, <\/span>a space that<\/span> could easily be compared to both caves and chapels.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nIts entrance is located in a shaded courtyard under a covered walkway, like a portico, that is supported by a row of columns. The portico creates a small compression of space before entering the living room, which opens upwards and outwards<\/span>: U<\/span>pwards towards a white, vaulted ceiling, and outwards towards the horizon, framed by a wraparound sandstone wall penetrated by five deep, frameless window niches.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nUtzon described how, when he designed the living room, he would visit a grotto that lies directly beneath the house where he could sit and enjoy the tension between the introspecti<\/span>on<\/span> of the cave and the endlessness of the horizon. Th<\/span>is<\/span> memory<\/span> is<\/span> relived in Can Lis<\/span>\u2019 interior<\/span>, <\/span>where everything is<\/span> orientated towards the sea, framed by telescopic windows. At the centre of the living room, where guests are most palpably surrounded by the landscape and the stone world of the Mediterranean, a large half<\/span>-<\/span>moon-shaped sofa invites you to rest. There is the smell of earth, stone, and soot from the fireplace, and a <\/span>complete <\/span>silence resonates until, through a small window perched high up on the western wall, a ray of sun <\/span>suddenly<\/span> creates a fiery streak across the wall. This play of light happens every day, a small piece of theatre that stages the earth\u2019s orbit for a few, cosmic minutes. Utzon considered the house to be a kind of timekeeper that could hold on to a moment and remind us that \u2018happiness is counted in seconds\u2019.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_blocks","block_sizes":"half_50_50","content_type_left":"image","image_size_left":"regular","image_left":151538,"video_left_url":"","video_caption_left":"","video_left_type":false,"text_left":"","credit_image":null,"credit_link_left":null,"content_type_right":"image","image_size_right":"regular","image_right":151542,"video_right_url":"","video_caption_right":"","video_right_type":false,"text_right":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[151534]},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"AFTERLIFE\r\n\r\nFor a quarter of a century, Can Lis was the permanent centre of J\u00f8rn and Lis\u2019 life, but when the architect\u2019s eyes bec<\/span>a<\/span>me sensitive to the intense light by the sea, the family decided to build Can Feliz (1992<\/span>\u2013<\/span>94), the House of Happiness, further inland on a mountainside by S\u2019Horta.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhen Utzon succumbed to a heart attack in 2008, all of his houses\u2014the Helleb\u00e6k House, Can Lis, and Can Feliz\u2014were passed on to his three children. Can Lis, his most recognised masterpiece, was acquired by the Utzon Foundation in 2011 to preserve the architect\u2019s work for generations to come. Today, the house serves as an endowed residence and has become a pilgrimage site for architects and artists from around the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhile both of Utzon\u2019s Mallorcan homes reflect a propensity towards nature, there is no mention of words like \u2018sustainability\u2019, \u2018off-grid\u2019, or \u2018simple living\u2019 in his private archive. More than a reflection of postwar idealism, Utzon\u2019s nod to paradise is an early and particularly fine example of a new thoughtfulness in architecture, one inspired by place. 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