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Freising

City in Bavaria, Germany, on the River Isar, 32 km/20 mi northeast of Munich; population (1994) 138,500. Freising has one of the oldest breweries in the world, dating from 1040. Other industries include light engineering. There is a cathedral (1161–1205) and a former Benedictine abbey (now a school of agriculture and brewing).



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1977: Appointed archbishop of Munich and Freising by Paul VI; becomes a cardinal three months later.
Kai Kein Respekt" includes works that Althoff originally showed in exhibitions at the Kunstverein Braunschweig (with Armin Kramer, 2002) and the Diozesanmuseum Freising (with Abel Auer, 2003), a Catholic institution.
In several recent competition projects (such as the 1993 'Gebaute Landschaft' offices and housing for Freising, Germany, and the 1994 Rome Auditorium complex) his response to the latter problem has to be to cover the buildings in a wavy roof, or roofs, which are either a visual analogy of landscaping, or are actually planted up as an extension of the landscape.
 
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