Tensegrity structures are really intriguing: bars floating in the air, without any contact to a solid support, attached only by wires toother bars... that are also floating in the air! The aim of this work is to serve as an introduction to such anatypical kind of structure. It tries to explain everything about thecontroversial origins and polemic fatherhood, tensegrities fromvarious fields, other than Architecture, structural principles,characteristics, advantages and weakness, precedent and current worksand patents, and finally, some new proposals, proving that it ispossible to find some applications to architectural and engineeringpurposes.In conclusion, this work tries to be a guide and reference to a newworld of structural possibilities that is blooming and finding itspath.
