PIER LUIGI NERVI: ART AND TECHNOLOGY IN BUILDING: PREFACE

摘要

Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) was one of the greatest and most inventive structural engineers of the 20th century (Figure 1). With his masterpieces, scattered the world over, Nervi contributed to create a glorious period for structural architecture. Nikolaus Pevsner, the distinguished historian of architecture, described him as "the most brilliant artist in reinforced concrete of our time". Nervi shared the cultures of architects and engineers, operating at the very intersection between the art and the science and technology of building. Like many of his predecessors in the early years of development of reinforced concrete technique at the dawn of the century, his personality comprised many facets, including designer, builder, researcher and creator of new construction techniques. He was also a professor and lecturer in prestigious universities around the world and the author of books debating the conceptual and technological fundamentals of construction, with particular regard to concrete construction.