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Aesthetics and technology in building /Pier Luigi Nervi ; edited by Cristiana Chiorino, Elisabetta Margiotta Nervi, and Thomas Leslie.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2018.Edition: The twenty-first-century editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252050367
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NA4125 .A378 2018
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Contents:
Subject: "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"--
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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"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979); 2. Toward Aesthetics and Technology in Building: Pier Luigi Nervi and the Clever Construction of an Ephemeral Success in the United States, 1951-1965; 3. The Genesis of Aesthetics and Technology in Building; 4. The Shape of Beauty; 5. Aesthetics and Technology in Building; 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 ArchitectsAfterword. Pier Luigi Nervi: An Aesthetic of Thinking; Index; About the Authors.

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