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The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan.
The Palazzetto 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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