After recocding the death of Jørn Utzon in our last issue, in this we carry an obituary for Sverre Fehn (pp. 11-15), and with it the feeling that their passing marks the end of an era. True, Oscar Niemeyer is still designing at more than 100 years of age, but Utzon and Fehn represented a living link to the mainstream of postwar Modern Architecture in Europe in a way that Niemeyer, despite his sojourn in Paris, never could. As young architects in the early 1950s both Utzon and Fehn revered Le Corbusier and Mies at a time when the Corbusian and Miesian strands of Modern architecture were widely seen as antithetical, and both went on to develop compelling new syntheses that melded Le Corbusier's poetic vision with a Miesian commitment to clarity of tectonic expression.
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