Exploring sustainability A new series examining a key issue confronting all designers
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Pioneering the field Frei Otto is considered the "founding father" of the fabric tension structure industry.
Networks of influence One of Otto's acolytes is Dr. -Ing. Rosemarie Wagner, professor in the department of architecture at the Technical University of Munich.
Tensile structures: Do it yourself! At the Free University of Brussels, Dr. Marijke Mollaert's architecture students design and then build their fabric structures.
Jeffersonian geometry Earl Mark's architecture students at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, explore what it means to abandon traditional construction methods.
Continuing education Graphic façades: Graphics for better buildings
