Finding Form : Towards an Architecture of the Minimal. Exhibition in the Villa Stuck, Munich, on the occasion of the 1992 Deutscher Werkbund Bayern Prize to Frei Otto and Bodo Rasch. Ed. by Sabine Schanz

Frei Otto

ISBN 10: 3930698668 / ISBN 13: 9783930698660

Edité par Edition Axel Menges, 1996

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Neuware - 'Primeval architecture is an architecture of necessity.Nothing is there to excess, no matter whetherstone, clay, reeds or wood, animal skins orhair are used. It is minimal. It can be very beautifuleven amidst poverty and is good in the ethicalsense.Good architecture seems to be more importantthan beautiful architecture. Beautiful architectureis not necessarily good. Only buildings that are atthe same time ethically good and aestheticallybeautiful are worth preserving.We have too many buildings that have becomeuseless and yet we still need new buildings, frompole to pole, in the cold and in the heat.Man's present areas of settlement are the newecological system in which technology is indispensable,even in hot and cold areas. .Our age requires buildings that are lighter,more energy-saving, more mobile and moreadaptable, in brief more natural, without disregardingthe need for safety and security.This logically leads to the further developmentof light constructions, to the building of tents,shells, awnings and air-supported membranes.It also leads to a new mobility and changeability.A new understanding of nature is forming underone aspect of high performance form (also called'classical form'), which unites aesthetic and ethicalviewpoints.Tomorrow's architecture will again be minimalarchitecture, an architecture of the self-educationand self-optimization processes suggested byhuman beings.'(Frei Otto and Bodo Rasch in their forewordof this book.)In 1992 the Bavarian branch of the DeutscherWerkbund awarded its first prize to Frei Otto, undoubtedlythe most successful and many-sidedprotagonist of modern light construction, andwith it a request to nominate a meritorious personto whom the prize could be passed on, andto design a joint exhibition with that person. FreiOtto chose his pupil Bodo Rasch, who had realizedOtto's theories particularly in other cultures.Otto died on 9 March 2015; he was to be publiclyannounced as the winner of the 2015 PritzkerPrize on 23 March, but his death meant the committeeannounced his award on 10 March. Ottohimself had been told earlier that he had wonthe prize by the executive director of the PritzkerPrize, Martha Thorne. He was reported to havesaid: 'I have never done anything to gain thisprize. Prize winning is not the goal of my life.I try to help poor people, but what shall I sayhere - I am very happy.'.

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• Titre: Finding Form : Towards an Architecture of the Minimal. Exhibition in the Villa Stuck, Munich, on the occasion of the 1992 Deutscher Werkbund Bayern Prize to Frei Otto and Bodo Rasch. Ed. by Sabine Schanz
• Éditeur: Edition Axel Menges
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3930698668
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783930698660
• Reliure: Buch
• Édition: 3ème Édition
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 247 L x 224 H x 21 P (en millimètres) 247 millimètres de largeur par 224 millimètres de hauteur par 21 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1102 grammes

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2019 Edition "Primeval architecture is an architecture of necessity. Nothing is there to excess, no matter whether stone, clay, reeds or wood, animal skins or hair are used. It is minimal. It can be very beautiful even amidst poverty and is good in the ethical sense. Good architecture seems to be more important than beautiful architecture. Beautiful architecture is not necessarily good. Only buildings that are at the same time ethically good and aesthetically beautiful are worth preserving. We have too many buildings that have become useless and yet we still need new buildings, from pole to pole, in the cold and in the heat. Mans present areas of settlement are the new ecological system in which technology is indispensable, even in hot and cold areas. ... Our age requires buildings that are lighter, more energy-saving, more mobile and more adaptable, in brief more natural, without disregarding the need for safety and security. This logically leads to the further development of light constructions, to the building of tents, shells, awnings and air-supported membranes. It also leads to a new mobility and changeability. A new understanding of nature is forming under one aspect of high performance form (also called classical form), which unites aesthetic and ethical viewpoints. Tomorrows architecture will again be minimal architecture, an architecture of the self-education and self-optimization processes suggested by human beings." (Frei Otto and Bodo Rasch in their foreword of this book) In 1992 the Bavarian branch of the Deutscher Werkbund awarded its first prize to Frei Otto, undoubtedly the most successful and many-sided protagonist of modern light construction, and with it a request to nominate a meritorious person to whom the prize could be passed on, and to design a joint exhibition with that person. Frei Otto chose his pupil Bodo Rasch, who had realized Ottos theories particularly in other cultures. The publication produced on this occasion provides information about scientific fundamentals and the working methods the two architects developed from these, which are characterized by "finding" not by "making". This is supposed to produce buildings that could not be more beautiful and can scarcely be improved in terms of materials and loadbearing capacity.

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Frei Otto is one of the 20th-century's most important architectural visionaries. Although at a first glance his buildings like the German Pavilion for the 1967 World Fair in Montreal, designed with Rolf Gutbrod, the roofs for the Olympic buildings in Munich designed by Günter Behnisch or the project developed with Christoph Ingenhoven for a new main station in Stuttgart seem to be in the tradition only of the great constructors of this century like Felix Candela or Pier Luigi Nervi, his work goes way beyond mere construction. He is a technician, artist and philosopher in one, and his central concern is for a new and all-embracing link with nature in building.