Danish architect Jørn Utzon created what Time magazine called one of the five wonders of twentieth-century architecture--the Sydney Opera House. Richard Weston, a professor of architecture and author of the critical work, Utzon, noted that, "as an icon," the Sydney Opera House "rivals the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal and the Pyramids and its profile must be almost as familiar as Muhammad Ali's face or a Coca-Cola bottle." The familiar tripartite, sail-like structure built, virtually in the Sydney Harbor at Bennelong Point, has, since its opening in 1973, come to symbolize Sydney and indeed all of Australia. The high point of Utzon's career, the Opera House was also his undoing. Cost overruns and a change of government in Australia led to forty-eight-year-old Utzon's highly publicized departure from the project in 1966; the interior was thereafter completed by three other architects. The controversy damaged Utzon's reputation for years. Though completing...