GENE ZELLMER

Gene Zellmer designed the world's first applications of structural fabric on a department store, church, office and residence. The department store was in TIME as one of the Five Best Architectural Designs, 1981. He did pioneering research in fabric structural systems at MIT and Natick Labs in 1964 and 1965. He had to wait over 12 years until a permanent structural fabric was available for an entire building envelope... Gene Zellmer has designed almost every building type (up to 12 stories) found in a typical U. S. city. Below is only a very small example to give a flavor of his design work.