Description
The exhibition "Models, Media, and Methods", curated by Georg Vrachliotis, opens the archive of celebrated German architect Frei Otto (1925-2015), on the 60th anniversary of his guest professorship at the Yale School of Architecture. Frei Otto’s way of thinking was distinguished by experimentation. His research manifested an “operative aesthetics” oscillating between the precision of scientific tools and artistic imagination, material culture, and media technology. His techniques of modeling, drawing, measuring, and evaluation formed the basis of a creative experimental culture embodied in the Institute for Lightweight Structure and its publications, which furthered architecture research as interdisciplinary and innovative knowledge production as well as served as the starting point for a collective discourse on the future of society.Period | 20 Mar 2020 → 2 May 2020 |
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Held at | Yale University, United States, Connecticut |
Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Frei Otto
- History of Architecture
- Curatorial Research
- Digital Culture
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Activities
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Curator of the Exhibition "Frei Otto. Thinking by Modelling"
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Architecture as a Presumed Future
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Research output
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Frei Otto, Carlfried Mutschler. Multihalle.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific
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Frei Otto. Denken in Modellen
Research output: Book/Report › Book editing › Scientific
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Frei Otto Thinking by Modeling
Research output: Book/Report › Book editing › Scientific
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Architecture and operative aesthetics in the work of Frei Otto
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceedings/Edited volume › Conference contribution › Scientific