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Sharing the Norton Professorship of Poetry this year with Candela will be R. Buckminster Fuller '17 of the United States and Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy...
Fuller, whose space frame pavilion of 1800 wooden dowels was constructed in the Leverett House courtyard in the Spring of 1969, will lecture in February and March; Nervi, professor at the University of Rome, will speak in April...
Corbu was to suffer a further disappointment in 1952, when the UNESCO headquarters in Paris was placed in the hands of Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer of the U.S., Bernard Zehrfuss of France, and Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy. Despite all this, Corbu was in fact entering the richest phase of his career. Plans that had been locked in his mind for years began tumbling out like coins from a treasure chest. Now came the Marseille apartment block of raw concrete (béton brut), on which the marks of the form boards were left visible. The Society for the Preservation...
...Nervi Shell Spans 300 Feet...
Renowned as a structural engineer and a master of pre-stressed and pre-cast concrete, Nervi built the Turin Exhibition Hall with a one-and-one-half-inch thick concrete shell spanning 300 feet. He is a professor at the University of Rome...