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The Lightness of Being
Frei’s thought bubbles
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»I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.«
Documentation of Otto’s pneumatic experiments with rubber forms and soap bubbles.
(All photos: © ILEK, Stuttgart)
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»We can build houses which are two or three kilometres high and we can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city but we have to ask what does it really make? What does society really need?«
Quote source this and following pages: Otto in conversation with Justin McGuirk, ICON, 2005
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»Using air as a building material means that the amount of material you need is very minimal so you can dedicate your forces to the relation between animals and man, and man and plants, and make an environment which is in equilibrium.«
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»The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.«
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