Word: nervy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drawing extensively on examples from his own career, Pier Luigi Nervi stated the advantages of prefabrication in reinforced concrete construction stressed again a recurrent theme of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures: the for close collaboration between designer, structural engineer, and con- from start to finish of an architectural project...
...these three do not collaborate more closely," Nervi told his Lowell LecHall audience, "many fine projects will remain only pieces of paper. And is nothing more melancholy than projects which are no more than paper." speaking chiefly from slides of many of his major works, Nervi demonstrated the technical innovation of prefabrication had been crucial in winning con- for contracts among building firms. "In these cases," Nervi noted, "the for maximum economy becomes more than ever stimulating because, obviously, solutions not economically suitable have little probability of being built, no how good the projects...
...Nervi main economic advantage of preparation, Nervi explained, is the elimination of the wood formwork previously to reinforced concrete. Further construction with prefabricated element is faster, Nervi noted. They can immediately mass-produced while the nations and vertical supports are and if accompanied "with exactness in layout and workman- can be quickly and easily erected site...
Among the problems Nervi said he had solved with reinforced concrete were spanning a factory space 300 feet wide with a sort of suspension bridge construction, and seepding ceiling and floor construction through the use of highly mobile pouring forms...
...Monday Nervi plans to discuss the uses of reinforced concrete in pre-fabrication as opposed to on-the-site pouring...