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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPier 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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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
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