Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson

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Olafur Eliasson (Icelandic: Ólafur Elíasson; born 1967) is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. Olafur represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The Weather … Read more

Einar Thorsteinn

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Einar Thorsteinn , Icelandic Einar Þorsteinn Ásgeirsson (* 17th June 1942 in Reykjavik , † 28. April 2015 ibid) [1] , was an Icelandic architect , theorist and pioneer of academic research on geometric structures. Thorsteinn was scientifically influenced by the Dymaxion worldview and the biomorphic, polyhedral, spherical and spherical forms of Richard Buckminster Fuller … Read more