Frei Otto passes just before receiving the Pritzker Prize

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From Gizmodo:

 

Frei Otto, architect behind some of the most important structures and engineering ideas of the last century, has died just two weeks before he was to receive the Pritzker Prize—the award that people often describe as the Nobel Prize for architecture.

 

http://gizmodo.com/the-best-of-frei-otto-the-architect-who-engineered-the-1690783540#