‘Construction-in-Reverse’ is a contemporary name to an age-old concept of reusing existing structural components to create new facilities. Along with being an alternative to the ills of demolition around the…
Frei Otto (1925–2015) was the German architect-engineer who taught buildings to weigh almost nothing: soap-film experiments became the cable-net German Pavilion at Expo 67 and the sweeping acrylic roof of…