50 YEARS AGO

摘要

The names of maillart, Nervi, Candela and Torroja are familiar throughout the world as engineer-designers of genius. In the hands of these men design and structure fuse into artefacts which look both daringly original and at the same time inevitable. Second only in interest to the works in his own right are the fruits of Professor Nervi's collaboration with architects. Gio Ponti, principal architect for the Pirelli building, Milan, for which he was a consultant engineer, writes: 'Nervi has a fine record internationally for his audacious.