A festschrift for professor Otto's 80th birthday.(Frei Otto: Complete Works--Lightweight Construction, Natural Design)(Book review)

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Frei Otto: Complete Works--Lightweight Construction, Natural Design, edited by Winfried Nerdinger. Birkhauser Verlag, PO Box 133, CH-4010 Basel, Switzerland. Basle 2005. 392 pp. + 600 ill., index. Price: 118-00 Swiss Francs.

This massive, lavishly illustrated volume has been published by Birkhauser in association with the Architecture Museum and the Department of Structural Engineering of the Technical University of Munich on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Frei Otto, who became known worldwide in the years following the Second World War for his ...

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