Frei Otto Wins Pritzker,Dies at 89

摘要

German architect Frei Otto, renowned for his lightweight tensile structures, was named the winner of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize March 10. The abrupt announcement came a day after Otto died, at the age of 89, in Germany. "Throughout his life, Frei Otto has produced imaginative, fresh, unprecedented spaces and constructions," wrote the jury in their citation. "He has also created knowledge. Herein resides his deep influence: not in forms to be copied but through the paths that have been opened by his research and discoveries." Otto learned of his award earlier this year when the prize's executive director, Martha Thorne, traveled to his home in Warmbronn, Germany, a city near Stuttgart.