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Home of Albert Frey

1963      1964

686 West Palisades Drive, Palm Springs, California, USA

© Don Buckner

Home of Jorn Utzon

1971      1973

77 Mitxa-Juno Square, Porto Petro, Majorca, Spain

© Ole Haupt / Wikipedia

Until the 1960s, architects either sought to make their buildings as modern as possible or perhaps built by the canons of an imagined future architecture. But in the 1960s a handful of architects took a different turn and tried for buildings that would exist outside of history, buildings that might be built a thousand years hence or have been built a thousand years before. One of these attempts is Jorn Utzon’s home on Majorca. It has the simplicity of a natural formation. It uses no cement. The interior is ungarnished. There is only the bare masonry, the sun and the quiet poetry of the proportions.