Montreal Expo, Canada
1967
Rolf Gutbrod with engineering by Frei Otto

Lightweight Structures Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
-

Japanese Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany
2000
with Shigeru Ban

Stuttgart Highspeed Railway Station, Germany
-
with Christoph Ingenhoven

Munich Oympic Stadium
1972
with Günter Behnisch



German Building

Frei Otto
born 1925

Famous for tent-like structures and interest in learning from nature's patterns

Current architects with a similar focus on natural structures include Jan Kaplicky at Future Systems and to a certain extent Eva Jiricna. Otto's tent-like projects no doubt influenced many of the British Hi-Tech architects such as Chris Wilkinson and Richard Rogers, though the influence of Archigram's lightweight structures also played its part, culminating in projects such as the Imagination building in central London

Modern Architect



World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

German Architects

Buildings / photos for the Frei Otto Architecture page welcome:
info@e-architect.co.uk

Frei Otto Buildings: page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt