Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reply of Professors Hoffman and Kissinger (CRIMSON, May 17) is an unseemly performance by normal standards of taste and logic. They say that anyone who has waded through the arguments pro and con would find this protest incredible. They conclude that "there are only two possible explanations" for the manifesto. One is described as the blind, deaf liberalism of the thirties. The other is ignorance born of overwork...
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...
With prefabrication in particular and architecture generally, Nervi stressed, designer must have "considerable gained through direct con- and familiarity with the problems of contraction...