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
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Published by 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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- 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
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- Frei Otto
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- Edition Axel Menges
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- 1996
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- 9783930698660
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