Trailblazing German architect Frei Otto is awarded the prize, just a day after his death on Monday. By Asad Syrkett. ... soap bubbles, and the delicate beauty and surprising strength of spiderwebs.

The influential German architect Frei Otto died Monday, ... a tensile web of transparent acrylic glass inspired by the ordinary soap bubble. He built on that concept in 1972, ...

German architect Frei Otto was posthumously awarded international architecture's top prize hours after his death was announced, aged 89. ... including soap bubbles and spider webs.

Video: Frei Otto Experimenting with Soap Bubbles. March 15, 2015 “The computer can only calculate what is already conceptually inside of it; you can only find what you look for in computers.

Frei Otto has been one of the most ... inspired by natural phenomena — from birds’ skulls to soap bubbles and spiders’ webs. Frei Otto is one of the great architects and engineers of the ...

Architect Frei Otto has been posthumously awarded the 2015 Pritzker Prize in architecture, the field’s most prestigious award. The German architect and structural engineer passed away yesterday ...

Dezeen remembers 2015 Pritzker laureate Frei Otto with some of the best projects from his pioneering career as a champion of tensile and membrane architecture.

In 1958 the leonine young German architect-engineer Frei Otto made a public attack on the new, American-funded Berlin Kongresshalle. The building’s clunky bivalve form meant it was already known as ...

Frei Otto, the German architect and engineer best known for his tent-like structures for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, ... soap bubbles and coral reefs — for inspiration, ...