Einar Thorsteinn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Icelandic architect
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Place of Birth: Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland
About Einar Thorsteinn
- Einar Thorsteinn (1942–April 28, 2015) was an Icelandic architect with an interest in geometrical structures.
- Thorsteinn was a follower of Buckminster Fuller and he worked with polyhedral and spherical shapes.
- He graduated from Technical University of Hannover.
- He worked with Frei Otto from 1969-1972 helping to design the Munich Olympiapark for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
- He then started the Constructions Lab in Iceland and experimented with tensile structures.
- He started a long collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson.
- Early results from the collaboration included geodesic dome structures, he also worked with cells with fivefold symmetry used in the Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall.
- He also worked with Guillermo Trotti to design mobile lunar research laboratories for NASA.
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