5 Frei Otto Quotes for You to Enjoy

Frei Otto

German Architect

Born: May 31, 1925

Died: Mar 9, 2015

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Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Walter Gropius Zaha Hadid

Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world. Frei Otto

Today Interior World Space Three Living Think Everything Drawings Eye Tried Object Three-Dimensional Architects Computer Most Always Brain Did Flat Should Monitor Two-Dimensional

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. Frei Otto

My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity. Frei Otto

Time Me Natural Humanity People Will Drive Whatever Natural Disasters Design Types Following Architectural New Disasters Buildings Doing Been Left Which Poor Poor People Use Help Keep

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence. Frei Otto

Humane Promote Only Buildings Human Peaceful

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