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Italian architect-engineer Pier Luigi Nervi will give the second of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures tonight at 3 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall. Nervi's illustrated lecture will deal with the revolutionary nature of reinforced concrete for his general topic. "The Relationship Between Technique and Aesthetics in Architecture...
...since the middle of the nineteenth century, when detached, scientific methods replaced intuition as the foundation for engineering many have feared a divorce of passion from technique, Nervi suggested...
...Nervi also ascribes the extraordinary aesthetic and emotional success of Gothic architecture to the "inseparable mixture of cold technique and fervid passion" which went into...
...Signor Nervi made it quite clear, however, that he does not share this pessimism. In his opinion, the new approach to engineering has revealed vast new technical possibilities which can in turn open equally vast aesthetic vistas if modern materials and techniques are used correctly. In his next lecture (May 10), he will discuss his own treatment of reinforced concrete...
...Signor Nervi delivered his lecture in Italian with the help of an interpreter to render the English translation...