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Nervi, Pier Luigi

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"Known for the "soaring beauty" of his designs and the buildings that realized them, Pier Nervi first made his reputation with the Municipal Stadium of Florence, Italy, and added to it with major structures that maximized open internal space, including arenas, field houses, airplane hangers, pavilions, and concert halls. Aesthetics and Technology in Building grew presents his ideas about architecture and engineering, heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings that show the design principles, means of construction, buildings under construction, and finished buildings. The new edition includes a preface, new introduction, and 4 new essays on Nervi, plus additional photographs of buildings he designed"-- "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, Robert Einaudi and Alberto Bologna on Nervi's life, work, and legacy"--

ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation. --- ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Essays. --- ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-). --- Architecture. --- Reinforced concrete construction. --- Concrete construction --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive

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Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) a marqué de son empreinte puissante le vingtième siècle. Ingénieur de formation, amoureux de l'architecture gothique, il a exploré sans relâche toutes les possibilités expressives et structurelles du béton armé, un matériau qui lui est quasi contemporain. Ponts, cathédrales, églises, stades, bâtiments industriels, tours ou infrastructures de transport, la liste impressionnante de ses projets conçus seul ou avec certains des plus grands architectes de son temps couvre toutes les typologies et les besoins humains. Convaincu que son art, celui de l'ingénieur bâtisseur, devait avant toute chose être humblement mis au service de la communauté des hommes, il a constamment recherché l'économie constructive sans renoncer à l'esthétique. Précurseur de nos préoccupations actuelles, il avait à l'esprit les limites des ressources naturelles et la nécessité de les employer avec parcimonie. Il demeure encore aujourd’hui une source d'inspiration technique et architecturale majeure.

Nervi, Pier Luigi, --- Nervi, Pier Luigi, 1891-1979

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