Touching the ground lightly: The life and work of Frei Otto

2015-03-12T07:00:00

Frei Otto in 2000

Spiders’ webs and soap bubbles proved a greater inspiration for this pioneering architect-engineer than the corpulant Nazi buildings of his childhood

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