Word: nervy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrate this point, Nervi used slides illustrating the evolution of the automobile, the airplane, and the locomotive. Early imaginative conceptions of the airplane designed without regard to physics, he pointed out, were grotesque "fantasies" with no common design. On the other hand, the shape of the modern airplane, determined by the principles of aerodynamics, is not only common to all airplanes, but is also aesthetically pleasing...
...prepare architects for this development, Nervi called on education in his profession to aim at giving its students "clear general ideas and a profound conceptual knowledge of all laws of physics and economics...
Public buildings such as entertainment halls, skyscrapers, and transportation Terminals, Nervi predicted, will progressively increase in size. As dimensions increase, static laws increasingly determine shape until "for structures of huge dimensions, obedience to them is compulsory...
...technical correctness of shapes imposed by physical law, Nervi maintained, constitutes the essential element of the the "'style of truth'" to which man's aesthetic sense instinctively responds...
...think that it is very difficult to explain the reason for our immediate approval of forms which come to us from the physical world," Nervi said. "I think, however, that without question we are pleased and moved by these forms...