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Frei Otto
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German architect (1925-2015)
Key facts
- Born
- Frei Paul Otto , ( 1925-05-31 ) 31 May 1925, Siegmar, Saxony , Germany
- Died
- 9 March 2015 (2015-03-09) (aged 89), Leonberg , Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Occupation
- Architect
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Family name
- Otto
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of death
- Leonberg
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Munich Olympic Stadium
- Field of work
- roof
- Movement
- high-tech architecture
- Conflict
- World War II
- Official website
- www.freiotto.com
- Work location
- Munich
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- Commons category
- Frei Otto
- date of birth
- 1925-05-31
- member of
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- date of death
- 2015-03-09
- name in native language
- Frei Otto
- has works in the collection
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- start of work period
- 1952-01-01
- end of work period
- 2006-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Frei Paul Otto ( German: [fʁaɪ ˈʔɔtoː]; 31 May 1925 – 9 March 2015) was a German architect and structural engineer noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures, including the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Otto won the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2006 and was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2015, shortly before his death.
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