Word: nervy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international legal scholar whose unremitting and persistent effort has brought nearer to reality the dream of a united Europe. Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architectural engineer...
...Nervi maintained that the basic uniformity of shape imposed on architecture by static law will run the risk of becoming "fatal monotony." "Binding as technical demands may be," he declared, there always remains a margin of freedom sufficient to show the personality if its creator and, if he be an artist, to flow his work, even in its strict technical obedience, to become a real and true work...
...Nervi argued, "all true solutions are those of maximum efficiency." At short distances strict adherence to physical law is not obligatory, but nevertheless it will achieve "conditions of maximum efficiency and of the best use of materials...
...Students," Nervi claimed, "must be divorced from the too-widespread tendency, if not outright and persistent mental habit, which leads them to consider a drawing as an architectural fact...
...order to gain these, Nervi concluded, the architect must have a fundamental conceptual grasp of all the technical fields he supervises. "It is certainly very difficult to achieve this vast, general synthetic preparation," he claimed, "but it is just this difficulty which renders the architect's profession so elevated...