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Drawing extensively on examples from his own career, Pier Luigi Nervi stated the advantages of prefabrication in reinforced concrete construction stressed again a recurrent theme of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures: the for close collaboration between designer, structural engineer, and con- from start to finish of an architectural project...
...told his Lowell LecHall audience, "many fine projects will remain only pieces of paper. And is nothing more melancholy than projects which are no more than paper." speaking chiefly from slides of many of his major works, Nervi demonstrated the technical innovation of prefabrication had been crucial in winning con- for contracts among building firms. "In these cases," Nervi noted, "the for maximum economy becomes more than ever stimulating because, obviously, solutions not economically suitable have little probability of being built, no how good the projects...
...speed with which prefabricated can be constructed, Nervi maintained, was crucial for winning the con- for the two vast vaults of the Exhibition Hall, each of which to be ready for automobile exhibition in a short time...
...amenities as running water, electric lights or garbage collection. Fortnight ago in Bogota, rats attacked a nine-month-old baby girl left alone on a pallet and nibbled her to death. The police rarely intervene. Brazil's favelas breed a notorious outlaw called the malandro-an all-purpose con man, pimp, thief and murderer. Of 5,000 country girls who emigrate to Santiago's slums each month, 500 end up in brothels...
However, Perkins said, "I was pleased by the inventiveness and the vitality shown by the Committee." The Master added that he had not expressed his own opinion--pro or con--on the Committee's original recommendations to Trottenberg...