{"product_id":"aesthetics-and-technology-in-building-9780252041693","title":"Aesthetics and Technology in Building","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePier 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 .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ELISABETTA MARGIOTTA NERVI\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CRISTIANA CHIORINO AND THOMAS LESLIE\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e1. Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  GABRIELE NERI\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e2. Toward \u003ci\u003eAesthetics and Technology in Building\u003c\/i\u003e: Pier Luigi Nervi and the Clever Construction of an Ephemeral Success in the United States, 1951-1965\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ALBERTO BOLOGNA\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e3. The Genesis of \u003ci\u003eAesthetics and Technology in Building\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ROBERTO EINAUDI\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e4. The Shape of Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  HANS-CHRISTIAN SCHINK\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e5. Aesthetics and Technology in Building\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PIER LUIGI NERVI\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eI. From the Past to the Present\u003cbr\u003e  II. The Plastic Richness of Concrete Cast in Place\u003cbr\u003e  III. The Plastic Richness of Precast Concrete\u003cbr\u003e  IV. The Foreseeable Future and the Training of Architects\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Afterword. Pier Luigi Nervi: An Aesthetic of Thinking\u003cbr\u003e  JOSEPH ABRAM\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  INDEX","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400443470167,"sku":"9780252041693","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252041693.jpg?v=1730470693","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aesthetics-and-technology-in-building-9780252041693","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}