Beauty's Rigor
Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi
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- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2017
Summary
Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Pier Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded the possibilities of form and structure. His methods, meanwhile, ingrained his structures with patterns that came directly out of his economical, manual construction processes. The results were buildings that matched awe-inspiring spans with surprisingly human scale.
Beauty’s Rigor offers a comprehensive…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252041129 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0252041127 |
| Author: | Thomas Leslie |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.02kg |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 279mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“Thomas Leslie fills out [Nervi’s] picture in a consistently engaging manner.”– Architectural Record
“Thomas Leslie fills out [Nervi’s] picture in a consistently engaging manner.”–Architectural Record “A superbly conceived and argued presentation of the work of a designer who commands a surprisingly meager bibliography despite his historical importance, contemporary relevance, and stunning corpus of masterful designs that are still prominent in the cityscapes of two continents. In addition to reproducing rarely seen documents Leslie has used them to create not only verbal but visual analysis. His passion and commitment shine through the text.”–Barry Bergdoll, author of European Architecture: 1750–1890
About The Author
Thomas Leslie
Thomas Leslie is the Pickard Chilton Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University. He is the author of Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934.
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