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Author : Frei Otto
Release : 1972
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Work of Frei Otto by : Frei Otto
Download or read book The Work of Frei Otto written by Frei Otto. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabine Schanz
Release : 1995
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Frei Otto, Bodo Rasch by : Sabine Schanz
Download or read book Frei Otto, Bodo Rasch written by Sabine Schanz. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frei Otto
Release : 2010-08-18
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis A Conversation with Frei Otto by : Frei Otto
Download or read book A Conversation with Frei Otto written by Frei Otto. This book was released on 2010-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Frei Otto
Release : 2009
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Occupying and Connecting by : Frei Otto
Download or read book Occupying and Connecting written by Frei Otto. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities, estates and routing systems develop, change constantly and fundamentally cannot be planned. Claims to ownership, land and building regulations, planning decisions and political interventions make it difficult for settlement structures to adapt to constantly changing requirements to such an extent that meaningful and totally ecological use of the surface of the earth is becoming increasingly difficult, although new techniques and flexible planning models mean that a connection could be found with the self-designing processes of urban-development history. Plants are anchored in their location on the face of the earth, animals and human beings have mobile territory and encampments that become static with increasing density. Human settlements are organisms, but they are not hereditarily anchored in their form like corals, sponges or beehives. They often grow and shrink at the same time. Their form can almost never be called chaotic. Typical self-formation processes lead to astonishing genetic optimisation in the course of time. Processes of change have become so rapid today that current urban-planning theories have been overtaken. But high effectiveness of self-created, in other words unplanned settlements in terms of energy and biology is totally achievable today in 'natural' town and transport planning and leads to ecologically meaningful solutions that are also full of beauty. The present study dates from 1995. It was written in the context of special research into 'natural constructions' by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and has hitherto been available only in German and as a working paper for circulation between those involved in the research project.
