1934-2021 If we had to choose one word to sum up the work of the German architect Jörg Schlaich, who died on 4 September at 86, that would be ‘lightness.’ Lightness as the result of optimizing resources and structural design; and lightness as an aest

Jorge Bernabeu   Lightness characterizes the work of the German engineer Jörg Schlaich, who passed away on Saturday, 4 September, at 86 years of age. Aiming for weightlessness makes it possible to reduce materials and dimensions, but it also to make the most of resou

Miguel Aguiló   Si hay algo que caracteriza la obra de tan gran y fructífero ingeniero es la búsqueda de la ligereza. En sus obras, sus escritos y sus clases, Jörg Schlaich concreta sus ideas en torno a la bien establecida tradición ingenieril de reducir la materia