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Frei Paul Otto ( German: [fʁaɪ ˈʔɔtoː]; 31 May 1925 – 9 March 2015) was a German architect and structural engineer noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures, including the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics .
May 31, 2020 · German architect and structural engineer Frei Otto (31 May 1925 – 9 March 2015) was well known for his pioneering innovations in lightweight and tensile structures.
15 Landmark projects by Frei Otto. 2015 Pritzker winner and a pioneer in innovative lightweight structures, Frei Otto has done 60 years of relevant and useful research in materials, membranes and tensile architecture. Born in Germany, Otto spent 2 years in a French camp as a prisoner of war, where he worked as a camp architect, building ...
Mar 11, 2015 · Dezeen remembers 2015 Pritzker laureate Frei Otto, who passed away this week at the age of 89, with some of the best projects from his pioneering career as a champion of tensile and membrane ...
Mar 18, 2015 · To learn more about Otto’s multidisciplinary approach to architecture as well as his emphasis on experimentation, we turned to an interview he did with Juan María Songel in 2004, published in...
May 27, 2024 · Frei Otto was a German architect and design engineer and winner of the 2015 Pritzker Prize, who is known for his tensile architectural designs—lightweight tentlike structures such as the central sports stadium of the Munich 1972 Olympic Games.
Frei Otto was not only one of the most genius and influential architects and visionary spirits of the twentieth century, with his pioneering structural inventions, his society-related design based on deep humanism, his belief in fundamental research and the way he defines architecture as teamwork — an interplay of collective knowledge of ...
Feb 6, 2022 · Frei Otto’s true contribution to architecture and structural engineering has only been appreciated with the perspective of time. Contemporary architects including Zaha Hadid cite Frei Otto...
If anyone doubts this aphorism, the death yesterday of Frei Otto, a titan of modern architecture, a few weeks short of his 90th birthday, and a few short weeks before his receipt of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in Miami in May, represents a sad and striking example of this truism.
Jul 19, 2023 · Frei Otto revolutionized lightweight structures and left a lasting impact on 20th-century architecture through his innovative design.
