• 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...
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  • Lightweight Structures. The founder Mahmoud Bodo Rasch studied with Frei Otto, worked in the Frei Otto Warmbronn studio and at the Institute for Lightweight Structures...
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    Arbeit macht frei ([ˈaʁbaɪt ˈmaxt ˈfʁaɪ] ) is a German phrase translated as "Work makes one free" or more idiomatically "Work sets you free" or "work liberates"...
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    architect and engineer Frei Otto, whose first use of the idea was in the construction of the West German pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. Otto next used the idea...
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  • and during the course of his studies, Mahmoud Bodo Rasch worked with Frei Otto at the Institut für leichte Flächentragwerke (Institute for Lightweight...
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    can be seen in the work of Frei Otto, Shigeru Ban, and Zaha Hadid. The design of the Munich Olympic Stadium by Frei Otto was inspired by soap surfaces...
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  • Frei Otto, Buro Happold was instrumental in further developing the knowledge and technology of fabric structures. With Bodo Rasch, a protégé of Frei Otto...
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  • German botanist Felix Otto (mathematician) (born 1966), German mathematician Frei Otto (1925–2015), German architect Frank Otto (academic) (1936–2017)...
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    mountain, it was built in 1985 by OHO Joint Venture, a team composed of Frei Otto, Buro Happold, and Omrania. Tuwaiq Palace won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture...
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  • Archived from the original on March 25, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2014. "Frei Otto, 2015 Laureate". Pritzker Architecture Prize. March 10, 2015. Archived...
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    architectural groups include the Metabolist Movement, Archigram, Cedric Price, Frei Otto, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Yona Friedman, and Buckminster Fuller. There are...
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    and the Stuttgart tensile architect Mahmoud Bodo Rasch, a student of Frei Otto. The present-day mosque Exterior of the mosque Interior courtyard Interior...
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  • Otto Frei was a Swiss wrestler. He competed in the men's Greco-Roman middleweight at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans...
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    alone. Designed by the German architect Günther Behnisch and the engineer Frei Otto, with the assistance of John Argyris, the lightweight tent construction...
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    Schumacher has said that he believes the work of Frei Otto (1925 - 2015) is a precursor of Parametricism, as Frei "used physical processes as simulations and...
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    Schirmkonstruktionen von Frei Otto - Arch+ Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Nerdinger, Winfried: Frei Otto. Das Gesamtwerk: Leicht Bauen...
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    curvature. Shukhov Rotunda by Vladimir Shukhov, 1896 Mannheim Multihalle by Frei Otto and Arup Structures 3 (many of whose team members later left to found...
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  • legal approval. Designed by architect Shigeru Ban along with consultants Frei Otto (the German architect who created the Olympic Stadium (Munich) and the...
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    through the force of gravity acting on the strings. German architect Frei Otto also experimented with non-digital parametric processes, using soap bubbles...
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    only a few scientific buildings. In 1971, a team led by German architect Frei Otto made a feasibility study for an air-supported city dome two kilometers...
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    been used in practical problem solving applications. Structural engineer Frei Otto used soap bubble films to determine the geometry of a sheet of least surface...
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    biggest demonstration against the project so far. Prior to that escalation, Frei Otto, one of the architects responsible for the project, cited a 2003 report...
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    Oscar Niemeyer, Félix Candela, Eduardo Torroja and Santiago Calatrava. Frei Otto used Gaudí's forms in the construction of the Munich Olympic Stadium....
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    architects and offices include Pritzker Prize winners Gottfried Böhm and Frei Otto. German literature can be traced back to the Middle Ages and the works...
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    Widmann Wilhelm Flügge Eugène Freyssinet Heinz Isler Pier Luigi Nervi Plate Frei Otto Ernest Edwin Sechler Vladimir Shukhov All-Russia Exhibition 1896 Eduardo...
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    Souto de Moura (2011) Wang Shu (2012) Toyo Ito (2013) Shigeru Ban (2014) Frei Otto (2015) Alejandro Aravena (2016) Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramón...
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    narrow and private interests. Cedric Price Daniel Libeskind Frank Gehry Frei Otto Greg Lynn Oscar Niemeyer Peter Eisenman Rem Koolhaas Wolf D. Prix Zaha...
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    King's Cross Station, London, England Vladimir Shukhov Buckminster Fuller Frei Otto Norman Foster Gridshell Geodesic dome Hyperboloid structure Panrussian...
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  • Pritzker Prize winners, including I. M. Pei, Kenzō Tange, Jørn Utzon, Frei Otto, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, and Zaha Hadid. During the...
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    high-tech style. Less direct precursors included Buckminster Fuller and Frei Otto, whose focus on minimizing construction resources generated an emphasis...
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