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Aesthetics and Technology in Building

The Twenty-First-Century Edition

Pier Nervi,  Cristiana Chiorino,  Elisabetta Nervi ,  Thomas Leslie

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English
University of Illinois Press
23 July 2018
Individual architects & architectural firms; Architectural structure & design; History of architecture
The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. The Palazetto dello Sport in Rome. The ""soaring beauty"" of Pier Luigi Nervi's visionary designs and buildings changed cityscapes in the twentieth century. His uncanny ingenuity with reinforced concrete, combined with a gift for practical problem solving, revolutionized the use of open internal space in structures like arenas and concert halls. Aesthetics and Technology in Building: The Twenty-First-Century Edition introduces Nervi's ideas about architecture and engineering to a new generation of students and admirers. More than 200 photographs, details, drawings, and plans show how Nervi put his ideas into practice. Expanding on the seminal 1961 Norton Lectures at Harvard, Nervi analyzes various functional and construction problems. He also explains how precast and cast-in-place concrete can answer demands for economy, technical and functional soundness, and aesthetic perfection. Throughout, he uses his major projects to show how these now-iconic buildings emerged from structural truths and far-sighted construction processes.

This new edition features dozens of added images, a new introduction, and essays by Joseph Abram, Roberto Einaudi, Alberto Bologna, Gabriele Neri, and Hans-Christian Schink on Nervi's life, work, and legacy.
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Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 279mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   993g
ISBN:   9780252041693
ISBN 10:   0252041690
Pages:   256
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Preface ELISABETTA MARGIOTTA NERVI Introduction CRISTIANA CHIORINO AND THOMAS LESLIE 1. Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) GABRIELE NERI 2. Toward Aesthetics and Technology in Building: Pier Luigi Nervi and the Clever Construction of an Ephemeral Success in the United States, 1951-1965 ALBERTO BOLOGNA 3. The Genesis of Aesthetics and Technology in Building ROBERTO EINAUDI 4. The Shape of Beauty HANS-CHRISTIAN SCHINK 5. Aesthetics and Technology in Building PIER LUIGI NERVI I. From the Past to the Present II. The Plastic Richness of Concrete Cast in Place III. The Plastic Richness of Precast Concrete IV. The Foreseeable Future and the Training of Architects Afterword. Pier Luigi Nervi: An Aesthetic of Thinking JOSEPH ABRAM INDEX

Pier Luigi Nervi was one of Europe's leading architects and most innovative structural engineers from the 1930s to his death. Cristiana Chiorino is an architect based in Turin and coeditor of Pier Luigi Nervi: Architecture as Challenge. Elisabetta Margiotta Nervi is Secretary General of the Pier Luigi Nervi Project in Brussels. Thomas Leslie is the Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture at Iowa State University. He is the author of Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 and Beauty's Rigor: Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi.

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Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) was one of Europe's leading architects and most innovative structural engineers from the 1930s to his death. Cristiana Chiorino is an architect based in Turin and coeditor of Pier Luigi Nervi: Architecture as Challenge . Elisabetta Margiotta Nervi is Secretary General of the Pier Luigi Nervi Project in Brussels. Thomas Leslie is the Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture at Iowa State University. He is the author of Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 and Beauty's Rigor: Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi .


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