Quotes by Frei Otto - Page 1

My architecture is the architecture of survival.
Frei Otto / Architect
Architecture
Survival
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I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.
Frei Otto / Architect
Air
Castles
Littles
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To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.
Frei Otto / Architect
Borders
Mean
Real
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Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.
Frei Otto / Architect
Humane
Peaceful
Buildings
Promote
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My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
Frei Otto / Architect
Architecture
Society
Flexible
Light
Might
Open
Bring
Open Society
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I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.
Frei Otto / Architect
Satisfied
Actively
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I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.
Frei Otto / Architect
Humanity
Dream It
Oldest
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Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? 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?
Frei Otto / Architect
Covering
Halls
Spaces
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My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.
Frei Otto / Architect
Following
Poor People
Architectural
Buildings
Disasters
Natural Disasters
Types
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Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
Frei Otto / Architect
Architecture
Architects
How Far
Tendency
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We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.
Frei Otto / Architect
Big Problems
Every Man
Flooding
Foolish
Self Made
Duties
Earthquake
Possibilities
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Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.
Frei Otto / Architect
Space
Brain
Computer
Eye
Three
Today
Living
Architects
Did
Drawings
Flat
Interior
Monitor
Two-Dimensional
Object
Tried
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