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A conversation with Frei Otto / Juan María Songel.

By: Otto, Frei, 1925-.
Contributor(s): Songel, Juan María.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Conversations.Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Princeton Architectural Press, 2010Description: 96 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9781568988849 .Contained works: Otto, Frei, 1925- Grundlagen einer Baukunst von Morgen.Subject(s): Otto, Frei, 1925- -- Interviews | Architects -- Germany -- Interviews | Architecture -- Germany -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 720.92 OTT
Contents:
The fundamentals of future architecture/ F. Otto -- A coversation with Frei Otto -- Frei Otto, investigator of the processes of form generation/ J. M. Songel.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 textFundamentals 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.

Originally published: Frei Otto : conversación con Juan María Songel. Barcelona, Spain : Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2008.

The fundamentals of future architecture/ F. Otto -- A coversation with Frei Otto -- Frei Otto, investigator of the processes of form generation/ J. M. Songel.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Juan Maria Songel is an architect and professor or architectural history and theory at the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University in Valencia, Spain. He also teaches art and aesthetics at the Civil Engineering School at the Polytechnic University.