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Secondary School “Geschwister-Scholl-Schule” (1956-62) in Lünen, Germany, by Hans Scharoun. Photo by Andreas Lechtape.

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Palácio Itamaraty (1960-70) in Brasília, Brazil, by Oscar Niemeyer. The sculpture in the foreground is Bruno Giorgi’s “Meteoro”. Photo by Marcel Gautherot.

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Thompson House (1950) in Los Angeles, CA, USA, by Richard O. Spencer. Photo by Julius Shulman.

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The Great Dictator Charles Chaplin. 1940

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In 1971 German architect/engineer Frei Otto (1925-2015) was honored with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, directed by Ludwig Glaeser and followed by the present eponymous catalogue, published by MoMA in 1972. The exhibition took a place at a time when Otto had already established his Institut für leichte Flächentragwerke at Stuttgart University, designed the German pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal but arguably his most prominent work, the Olympic Stadium and adjacent facilities of the 1972 Olympics in Munich wasn’t yet completed. Still, the catalogue includes Frei Otto’s models of the latter project just as well as numerous other models and completed works from the 1950s and 1960s.

The catalogue is a wonderful, richly illustrated historic document that showcases some two decades of Frei Otto’s already impressive work and I was more than happy when I read the recent newsletter of Fachbuchhandlung Karl Krämer in Stuttgart: they announced that they had received some copies of the catalogue from the vaults of the Institut für leichte Flächentragwerke. Luckily I ordered soon enough to finally be able to add the volume to my library!

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Wallpaper girl, 2015 - by Noé Sendas (1972), Belgian

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Parish Church (1973-76) in Puchenau, Austria, by Roland Rainer. Photo also by Roland Rainer.

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Rain on Windshield, Gleneagle, CO, 6 12 25, Photo by Joe Bruha, Copyright 2025

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Judy Garland by Richard Avedon, 1951

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Research Facility (1959-63) of IBM in Uithoorn, the Netherlands, by Dick van Mourik & Jan du Pon

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Cecil Beaton, David Herbert, and Truman Capote, Morocco, Photo by Cecil Beaton, 1949

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Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | Gordon Bunshaft

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Fosco Mariani.