From: SAHARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU
Subject: Sydney Opera House
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 06:35 EDT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9302231142.AA08899@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
On the tour boat ride of the Sydney Australia harbor the announcer
said that the architect of the world famous opera house had never
laid eyes on it. It seems that the architect had a falling out
with someone (the developer, the Government?) and refused to ever
go to see his creation. I'm sure someone from Australia will correct/
fix this anecdote.
I immediately recalled this while reading Ichbiah's resignation
posting.
If someone does induce Jean to re-post his resignation here it
should inspire a very large commentary.
Question: Was the Sydney Opera House architect a Frenchman? I recall
that the bridge designer was American but I can't recall where the
opera house architect's homeland.
sam harbaugh
p.s. On National Public Radio's popular "Car-Talk" one of the hosts
stated that there is a popular saying in the car industry,
"The French copy noone and noone copies the French"
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