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Frei Otto [1925-2015] German

Rank: 102
Architect

Frei Paul Otto was a German architect and structural engineer noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures, including the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Architecture, Design

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We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.		101
My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.	Design	102
My architecture is the architecture of survival.	Architecture	103
Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.	Architecture	104
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.	Architecture	105
Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.		106
I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.		107
Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?		108
Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.		109
I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.		110

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