Word: nervy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conclusion to his Charles Eliot Norton lectures, Pier Luigi Nervi last night looked into the future to a "vast and spacious architecture" constructed a strict obedience to physical law while maintaining an intrinsic appeal to man's aesthetic sense...
...Nervi recounted how scarcity of steel the obstacles to importing wood in the late 'thirties led him to very of prefabrication for Italian hangars he built in 1939. When Germans destroyed the hangars at of the war, they demonstrated strength of the interlocking elements, rubble revealed that not a single a steel-rod joints had been broken...
...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...
...Finally, Nervi argued that by doing with the restictions of the traditional formwork, prefabrication permits richness of form, delicate refine- and the possibility of creating rhythms produced by the repeti- of equal elements." Static law defines basic structural form, but that the architect is free to express tastes...
With prefabrication in particular and architecture generally, Nervi stressed, designer must have "considerable gained through direct con- and familiarity with the problems of contraction...