A dialogue of form and force

Julian Lienhard is founder and director of str.ucture, an engineering company committed to the development of innovative lightweight solutions. He is an expert on Tensile and Membrane Architecture, on parametric modelling and structural Design, and further parts of his work involve Biomimetic research.
(conférence en anglais)

Lecture followed by the screening of the documentary film
"Frei Otto: Spanning the Future"
Swiss Premiere

Frei Otto: Spanning the Future is a documentary about the incredible life and work of Frei Otto. As an architect and engineer he laid the foundation for contemporary lightweight architecture, and his ideas are still awe inspiring decades after he revealed them. This fact was cemented when he was named the 2015 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
TRAILER

"Otto Frei brought together engineers, architects, biologists, and the most different fields that were not connected at this time with architecture"
Robert Roithmayr, founder of Tensile & Formfinder Software

Screenings:
Project Room, 12:00
Auditoire SG1, 19:00