Einar Thorsteinn (1945-2015) was an experimental architect of singular vision. Born in Iceland, he studied in Hanover and Stuttgart, Germany and worked in Frei Otto’s architecture studio from 1969 to 1972, where he was part of the team designing the lightweight roofs structures at the Munich Olympic Village. Back in Iceland from 1972, Thorsteinn founded his own firm, the Constructions Lab, which produced a number of lightweight structures from ceremonial event tents to geodesic domes for geothermal power plants. His innovative work with spatial geometry also led him to collaborations with the likes of Buckminster Fuller and Linus Pauling.
This picture shows Thorsteinn at work in the studio of Ólafur Elíasson in Berlin where he worked in-house from 2000 to 2013, advising and calculating many of the complex polyhedral volumes and spatial challenges that are integral to Elíasson’s work – most notably the five-fold symmetry of the “quasi brick” polyhedron façade of the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre. “In his many years at the studio”, says Ólafur Elíasson, “Einar gave shape to space – and he also gave space dimensions that go beyond mathematical definitions”. I (sl)
Einar Thorsteinn (1945-2015) was an experimental architect of singular vision. Born in Iceland, he studied in Hanover and Stuttgart, Germany and worked in Frei Otto’s architecture studio from 1969 to 1972, where he was part of the team designing the lightweight roof structures at the Munich Olympic Village. Back in Iceland from 1972, Thorsteinn founded his own firm, the Constructions Lab, which produced a number of lightweight structures from ceremonial event tents to geodesic domes for geothermal power plants. His innovative work with spatial geometry also led him to collaborations with the likes of Buckminster Fuller and Linus Pauling...
Photo courtesy Ólafur Elíasson.
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