Frei Otto (1925–2015). Laurels and Death
Journal Title: Architectus - Year 2015, Vol 19, Issue 4
Abstract
The greatest honor for Frei Otto’s activity in the form of the Pritzker award coincided with his death in 2015. His specific creativeness mainly known from his pavilion constructions (German Pavilion at the EXPO in Montreal) embraces a much larger range of constructive solutions often based on examples from nature. Precisely in this range – relatively less known – Frei Otto initiated an international enterprise presaging the values of preservation of the natural environment in the intensely developing world. For the professional Polish environment very important is his relationship full of sympathy and his offering us, in the difficult times of isolation from the Western world, his experiences – in the form of a display, in Warsaw, of his creations, combined with a lecture at the Faculty of Architecture, and also making accessible his book Das hängende Dach (The Suspended Roofs). A specific decree of fate – in the aspect of relations with Poland – was the fact that one of his latest awards Otto Frei received precisely in our country, in Wrocław, at the International Symposium IASS in 2013. This article presents the character of this eminent architect, is most distinctive objects, such as the interior of the Institute in Stuttgart, being the prototype of the planned German pavilion at the EXPO in Montreal, the pavilion itself, the Olympian Stadium in Munich, and also the interior of the Exhibition Hall in Mannheim.
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Tadeusz Barucki
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