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...internationally renowned innovator of reinforced-concrete building techniques spent his first Charles Eliot Norton lecture discussing the "rapport between technique and aesthetics" in construction. To demonstrate the inseparability of these "material and spiritual" components of architecture, Nervi noted that "no one could feel a comfortable sense of tranquil aesthetic enjoyment in a room whose walls or ceiling visually gave the sensation of being on the verge of collapsing...
Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi will give the first of three Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on "The Relationship Between Aesthetical and Technical Aspects of Building" Thursday night at 8 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall...
Nervi joints Felix Candela and R. Buckminster Fuller in sharing the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship this year. He is widely known for his innovations as a structural engineer, such as the thin precast and pre-stressed concrete shells that enclose many of his buildings...
...Journal abruptly found itself in an unladylike contest for the throne. That year McCall's, equipped with a vigorous new editor, Herbert Mayes, and plenty of money from its new proprietor, West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, set out to topple the complacent queen. By 1961, McCall's had passed the Journal in both ad revenue ($37.6 million to $27.1 million) and total circulation (7,400,000 to 7,200,000), though the Journal still enjoyed a narrow lead in newsstand sales...
...addition, the Summer School drama program will offer courses for academic credit. Among the faculty are Kenneth Macgowan, professor of Theatre Arts, Emeritus, at the University of California at Los Angeles; and Elliot Norton, drama critic and lecturer on Dramatic Literature at Boston University...