In the 1950s, Frei Otto's tent structures left their mark on the horticultural shows of the new Bonn Republic, together with Behnisch & Partner he created the roof landscape for the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. The innovative potential in his work is based on the interdisciplinarity of a mode of thinking that took in architecture, technology, art, science, and society. He sawnature as a model and tried throughout his life to harness it for the sake of architecture and civil engineering -- and thus also for the future.