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“Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think o…” — Frei Otto

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
Frei Otto Architect • German
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