Bonus — Frei Otto: Spanning the Future

Gallery

Extras and behind the scenes

The Dancing Fountain, 1957

The Dancing Fountain, 1957

This structure amazed onlookers and showed that tensile structures were an emerging architectural design medium.

Music Pavilion

Sails at the Federal Garden Exhibition at Kassel, 1955, where Frei Otto first gained notoriety.

Frei Otto

Interviewed for the film in 2012.

Frei Otto

Demonstrating inverse modeling at the IL institute at the University of Stuttgart.

Early Sketches

Drawings for the 1955 Federal Garden Exhibition at Kassel.

Olympic Stadium Model

Olympic Stadium Model

Model for the Munich Olympic Stadium.

Frei Otto and Shigeru Ban

Frei Otto and Shigeru Ban

Discussing plans for the Japanese Pavilion for Expo 2000 in Hannover.

Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

Legendary American architect, futurist, and friend of Frei Otto.

Olympic Stadium

Olympic Stadium

The finished stadium for the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Aviary Model

Model for the aviary at the Munich Zoo.

Aviary

At the Munich Zoo.

Zaha Hadid

Talking about Frei Otto’s continued influence beyond architecture and engineering.

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Robert Roithmayr discusses Frei Otto's impact on current form finding techniques.

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Filming at the Mannheim Multihalle.

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Executive Producer Simon K. Chiu, Jürgen Hennicke, and Frei Otto in Frei Otto's home (left to right).

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Robert Roithmayr, Jürgen Hennicke, and Frei Otto at Frei Otto's atelier (left to right).

The Dancing Fountain, 1957

Music Pavilion

Frei Otto

Frei Otto

Early Sketches

Olympic Stadium Model

Frei Otto and Shigeru Ban

Buckminster Fuller

Olympic Stadium

Aviary Model

Aviary

Zaha Hadid

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

videos

Bonus footage and shorts

PHILOSOPHY – Frei Otto: Spanning the Future

AVIARY – Frei Otto: Spanning the Future

The IL – Frei Otto: Spanning the Future

FORM FINDING – Frei Otto: Spanning the Future

BUCKMINSTER FULLER – Frei Otto: Spanning the Future

Modeling with Soap Film

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