Frei Otto, architect behind ... outside the fray of crazy-famous architects that defines the 1990s and 2000s. But without him, many of the structures and buildings of the past 50 years wouldn ...

the users are guided through the key events in the life of Frei Otto — the Development Institute for Lightweight Building in Berlin, the world-famous Institute for Lightweight Structures in ...

Originally built as a temporary structure, the pavilion still stands in Mannheim and has been the inspiration behind a number of famous gridshell buildings including Cullinan’s Weald and Downland ...

German architect Frei Otto is this year's winner of ... and creator of memorable buildings and spaces." Otto's works are often designed in collaboration with others. His most notable projects ...

"Whenever I look at the work of the latest architects, be they Hadid, or Heatherwick and Ingels' designs for the Google building, they all just look like Frei Otto's work, such was the prescience ...

My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... You have here a happy man." Frei Otto, born almost 90 ...

and hyperbolic membrane canopies to connect the buildings and protect visitors from rain and sun. Otto went on to establish the Atelier (Frei Otto) Warmbronn architectural studio near Stuttgart, where ...

A day after his death, German architect Frei Otto ... of resources.” Otto’s lightweight, sometimes temporary, structures were a reaction to the heavy, multi-columned buildings, meant to ...