The Work of Frei Otto


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Frei Otto


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Frei Otto


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A Conversation with Frei Otto


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One of the twentieth century's most important design visionaries, German architect and structural engineer Frei Otto(b. 1925) made his mark with a series of super-light tensile structures—such as the West German Pavilion for Montreal's Expo 67 and the Olympic Stadium in Munich (1972)—that are celebrated for their technical ingenuity and material efficiency. Yet despite Otto's achievements, relatively little has been published on his work. A Conversation with Frei Otto features a comprehensive interview with Otto as well as his critical text Fundamentals of a Future Architecture in its entirety. In his conversation with Juan María Songel, Otto talks freely about everything from his early connections to the Bauhaus to his thoughts on the current state of engineering and architecture. The latest in our Conversations series, this book also includes images of Otto's most important and well-known works.




Frei Otto, Bodo Rasch


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Multihalle Mannheim; the documentation on the design and execution work of Mannheim Hall


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"The documentation on the design and execution work of the Mannheim Hall was prepared at the IL, directed by Frei Otto, in close cooperation with the architects, Mutschler & Partners, Mannheim, and the engineers, Ove Arup & Partners, London. This publication is, at the same time, a report on the sub-project "Experience gained by buildings" of the Sonderforschungsbereich 64 "Wide-Span Lightweight Structures" of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft."




Frei Otto. Complete Works


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Frei Otto, awarded the Royal Gold Medal 2006 by the Royal Institute of British Architects, is one of Germany’s most innovative architects in the second half of the 20th centuvry. In this volume, prominent authors analyse and discuss the key aspects of Frei Otto’s work. In addition it contains an extensive and detailed catalogue of over 200 buildings and projects dating from the years 1951–2004.




The Structural Basis of Architecture


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This new edition is completely updated and rewritten, covers an expanded range of topics, and includes many worked-out examples inspired by built projects. The approach throughout is to present structures as a fundamental basis for architecture. --Book Jacket.




Automatic Architecture


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In the 1960s and ’70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor, they had one thing in common: they advocated moving away from the traditional reliance on an individual architect’s knowledge and instincts and toward the use of external tools and processes that were considered objective, logical, or natural. Automatic architecture was born. The quixotic attempts to formulate such design processes extended modernist principles and tried to draw architecture closer to mathematics and the sciences. By focusing on design methods, and by examining evidence at a range of scales—from institutions to individual buildings—Automatic Architecture offers an alternative to narratives of this period that have presented postmodernism as a question of style, as the methods and techniques traced here have been more deeply consequential than the many stylistic shifts of the past half century. Sean Keller closes the book with an analysis of the contemporary condition, suggesting future paths for architectural practice that work through, but also beyond, the merely automatic.




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