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About: The use of tensile architecture became important in the middle of the 20th century, when tensile structures were used in certain parts of Germany. One of the first projects that made this architecture popular was presented in the buildings for the Munich Olympics, held in 1972. Its progression and use had several milestones throughout architectural history. One of the most famous was the collapse of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, in Minneapolis, in 2010, due to a snow load. As the spinning and weaving of fabrics became mechanized, large portable tents could be created for traveling circus tents, which abounded in the latter part of the 20th century. Tents such as the Chapiteau, which were up to 50 meters in diameter and made of linen (Linum usitatissimum) or hemp canvas. The Chapiteau was supported near the center by four main masts, located around the circus ring. The canvas hung from them to poles placed at frequent intervals along the perimeter, which were guyed, by ropes anchored to the ground.6 Although these were ambulatory structures, installed for a short period of time, their design incorporated two of the main characteristics of modern textile structures: a double-curved surface shape and prestressed, making them difficult to deform. The first works of textile architecture began to be carried out in 1952, although the starting point of this new type of construction can be placed in the construction of the German Pavilion for the Montreal Expo of 1967, a work designed by Frei Otto and Rolf Gutbrod. It presented a radical starting point, both architecturally and structurally. From masts at different heights, he hung a network of cables, which concentrated their tension at the top of the masts. There were 10,000 m² of PVC-coated polyester fabric suspended from the cable net and tensioned to form the skin of the enclosure. From that year on, the use of textile architecture has been on the rise until today, where the use of this type of construction is widespread.