Frei Otto in Film

John Hill
11. March 2015
Aviary in the Munich Zoo at Hellabrunn, 1979-1980 (Photo: Screenshot from "Frei Otto: Spanning the Future")

This seven-minute trailer for Frei Otto: Spanning the Future, a documentary produced for Colorado Public Television, gives some background on Otto and highlights a few notable structures:


This episode of "Great Moments in Science and Technology" focuses on Otto's most well known project (done with Günter Behnisch), the roof of Munich Olympic Stadium:


And finally here is a 1981 film (without sound) from the Institute for Lightweight Structures (IL, now ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart illustrating how Otto found inspiration in nature, particularly soap film:

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