Einar Thorsteinn

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Einar Thorsteinn (1942–April 28, 2015) was an Icelandic architect with an interest in geometrical structures.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] He also worked with Guillermo Trotti to design mobile lunar research laboratories for NASA.

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Model Room. Moderna Museet Stockholm