FREI OTTO AWARDED POSTHUMOUS PRITZKER

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Visionary architect Frei Otto, the 'lightweight structure pioneer', was awarded the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize last week, shortly after his death at the age of 89. The Pritzker organisation brought forward its planned award announcement, which was due to be made in two weeks' time, when it learnt that the German had died. Otto was among the first to experiment with modern lightweighttent-like structures and, according to the prize jury, practised 'a holistic and collaborative approach to architecture, working with environmentalists, biologists, engineers, philosophers, historians, naturalists, artists, and other architects'. He remains best-known for his stadium roofs in Munich's Olympic Park (above) and for the German Pavilion at the 1967 Expo.