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Pier Luigi Nervi (21 June 1891 – 9 January 1979) was an Italian engineer and architect. He studied at the University of Bologna graduating in 1913. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946 to 1961 and is known worldwide as a structural engineer and architect and for his innovative use of reinforced concrete ...
Jun 21, 2019 · Known as both an architect and an engineer, Pier Luigi Nervi (June 21, 1891 – January 9, 1979) explored the limitations of reinforced concrete by creating a variety of inventive structural ...
Jun 17, 2024 · Pier Luigi Nervi (born June 21, 1891, Sondrio, Italy—died Jan. 9, 1979, Rome) was an Italian engineer and architect, internationally renowned for his technical ingenuity and dramatic sense of design, especially as applied to large-span structures built of reinforced concrete. His important works include a prefabricated 309-foot-span arch for ...
Founded twelve years ago, the Pier Luigi Nervi Project Foundation is a non-profit organisation contributing to a renewal of study and knowledge about the life and work of the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi. Headed by Marco, one of the grandchildren of Pier Luigi Nervi, the Foundation has been engaged in coordinating the ...
A Biographical profile. by MARIO ALBERTO CHIORINOPier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) is one of the greatest structural architects of the 20 th Century. His extraordinary success in combining the art and the science of building produced some of contemporary architecture’s finest works. Together with other engineers who had a natural inclination to ...
An outstanding author of structural architectures, Pier Luigi Nervi (Sondrio, June 21st 1891 – Rome, January 9th 1979) continued a line of research initially developed by pioneers engineers like François Hennebique and subsequently, among others, Robert Maillart in Switzerland.Like his predecessors, Nervi was both designer and constructor, and he blended the art and science of building ...
Jun 25, 2024 · This majestic interior is the Palazzo dello Sport (1959), designed by the Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979) and architect Marcello Piacentini. When the young Cassius Clay won his first Olympic gold in Rome, the arresting press image set the ascendant boxer against the spectacular domed ceiling of Nervi’s Palazzo dello Sport.
Pier Luigi Nervi, (born June 21, 1891, Sondrio, Italy—died Jan. 9, 1979, Rome), Italian engineer and building contractor.He became internationally renowned for his invention of ferro-cement, a material of his own invention composed of dense concrete heavily reinforced with evenly distributed steel mesh that together give it both lightness and strength.
May 23, 2018 · Nervi, Pier Luigi (1891–1979). Italian civil engineer, he made his reputation as one of the most gifted designers of reinforced-concrete structures of C20. Although influenced by Italian Rationalism, notably by Terragni, he remained stylistically independent of fashion.His Florence Stadium (1930–2), with its huge cantilevered roof-structure and projecting spiral stairs, was the first of ...
Pier Luigi Nervi (Sondrio, 21 giugno 1891 – Roma, 9 gennaio 1979) è stato un ingegnere e imprenditore italiano, specializzato nell'edilizia civile. Fu socio dell'Accademia nazionale delle scienze e autore di alcune grandi opere. Collaborò con architetti di fama internazionale, tra cui Le Corbusier e Louis Kahn
