Thinking by Modeling - Hrsg.: Südwestdeutschen Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau (saai) am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Katalog zur Ausstellung im ZKM Center for Art

In the 1950s, Frei Otto's tent structures left their mark on the horticultural shows of the new Bonn Republic; together with Behnisch & Partner he created the roof landscape for the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. The innovative potential in his work is based on the interdisciplinarity of a mode of thinking that took in architecture, technology, art, science, and society. He saw nature as a model and tried throughout his life to harness it for the sake of architecture and civil engineering - and thus also for the future. The Frei-Otto Archive features a large number of experimental models. The book will come out in two editions (German and English) and will be the first time Frei Otto's models have appeared in print. The book is being published in conjunction with the most extensive exhibition to date of the work of Frei Otto at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in association with the Wüstenrot Foundation. The exhibition will open in autumn 2016.

About the author

Frei Paul Otto, geboren 1925, war ein deutscher Architekt. Er entwarf das legendäre Dach des Münchner Olympiastadions. Posthum wurde er mit dem Pritzker Preis geehrt. Frei Otto verstarb im März 2015.

Georg Vrachliotis: Seit 2004 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter für Architekturtheorie an der Professur Hovestadt für Computer-Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) des Departements Architektur der ETH Zürich. Seit 2006 Lehrauftrag für Architekturtheorie am Institut für Architekturtheorie der Technischen Universität Wien.

Product details

• Authors: Frei Otto
• Assisted by: Archiv für Architektur und Inge (Editor), Joachim Kleinmanns (Editor), Martin Kunz (Editor), Philip Kurz (Editor), Geor Vrachliotis (Editor), Georg Vrachliotis (Editor)
• Publisher: Spector Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2017
• EAN: 9783959050890
• ISBN: 978-3-95905-089-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 330 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 1952 g
• Illustrations: with 200 black-white and colour illustrations of the models from the Frei-Otto Archive
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture