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...Pier Luigi Nervi is a great builder because Italy is scarce in trees and World War II demolished northern Italy. A stupid thing to say, I know, for even before the War Nervi had demonstrated undeniable genius as an engineer. Yet Nervi's is the genius of solving problems. Destruction and financial ruin in Italy necessitated speed and economy, driving Nervi to the discovery of "ferro-cement," a new reinforced concrete--cheaper, more elastic, and, of the essence, more rapidly constructed than older versions...
Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi will give the first of three Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on "The Relationship Between Aesthetical and Technical Aspects of Building" Thursday night at 8 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...simple story. But in Resnais' hands the love affair develops into a dramatic dialogue of appearance and reality in the manner of Luigi Pirandello. As the film begins, the seducer with seeming sincerity reminds the young woman that they have met before. With seeming sincerity she says she cannot remember when. Why, it was only a year ago, he says reproachfully, and at this very same spa-or was it at Friedrichsbad? Or was it at Marienbad? Wherever it was, they met and-can she really have forgotten?-fell in love. She says he must be joking. He insists...
...demand for cheap transportation. Next, spotting Italian industry's growing need for tools, he began producing heavy machinery and giant electric steelmaking furnaces. Recently, to keep up with the middle-class Italian's desire to graduate from two-wheeled transportation to four. Ferdinando, with his son, Luigi, took Innocenti Co. into assembling British Motor Corporation's Italian-styled Austin...
Sharing the Norton Professorship of Poetry this year with Candela will be R. Buckminster Fuller '17 of the United States and Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy...