David Georges Emmerich (1925-1996) was an architect and an engineer. Together with Robert Le Ricolais and R. Buckminster Fuller, he was in France the main figure of the research on structural morphology in architecture. In 1958, Emmerich invented the concept of &quot;tensegrity&quot;: tensing and compression counterbalance each other to form a light, auto-stable and permanent polyhedral configuration. It is the prelude to an architecture without foundations [...]