Otto and his wife lived in Leonberg near Stuttgart. Frei Otto died, according to his wife Ingrid on Monday, two months before his 90th birthday.
Otto was not only an architect, but also “researchers, inventors, Form Finder, engineer, builder, teacher, employees, environmental activist, humanist and creator of memorable buildings and places’, and the jury of the Pritzker Prize justified their choice. Otto is only the second German – Gottfried Böhm. 1986 – receives the prize awarded annually since 1979
The University of Stuttgart called Otto as “the great shapers”. Otto has contributed to a significant extent to the international reputation of the faculty of architecture and urban planning, and construction and environmental engineering, said rector Wolfram Ressel. Formative was “intense interdisciplinary method” his. “In our grief is joy mixed with the news that Frei Otto is posthumously received the Pritzker Prize,” Ressel said
Also, the president of the Chamber of Architects of Baden-Württemberg, Markus Müller, praised the merits. ” We lose a great architect personality. As a teacher he has shaped generations and paves the way for a new design. “The multi-purpose hall in Mannheim and the Institute specially created for him for Lightweight Structures bear witness to this.
Born in 1925 at the Saxon Siegmar Otto was the son of a sculptor and pupil of the renowned architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). In addition to the tent roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich, he designed in collaboration with colleagues, inter alia, the Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover and the spider web tent roof over the German Pavilion at the World Expo 1967 in Montréal. In Cologne, he covered the dance fountain in the Rhine Park and in Bremen he constructed the roof of the St. Luke’s Church. Also in Mannheim or Kassel he worked. In addition, the Tuwaiq Palace bears in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Otto’s handwriting.
For a time he also worked on the controversial railway station project Stuttgart 21, then distanced himself but of it. His adopted home city of Leonberg had appointed him in 2000 as an honorary citizen. He even created by a fountain in memory of the poet Christian Wagner. According to city Otto should be “adequately appreciated” – for instance with a street or square
The jury of the Pritzker Prize was the winner actually want to name only in about two weeks, the announcement but then brought forward.. “The news of his death is very sad,” said Tom Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, which awards the prize. The prestigious award will therefore first awarded posthumously. Otto but I have experienced before his death from the ceremony. “I have never done anything to receive this award,” he told the jury thereupon. “The winning prizes is not my goal in life. I’m trying to help poor people. But what can I say, I’m very happy I did. “
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