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 ...

Pier Luigi Nervi is a great builder because Italy is scarce in trees and World War II demolished northern Italy. A stupid thing to say, I know, for even before the War Nervi had demonstrated ...

Pier Luigi Nervi's Palazzo del Lavoro (Palace of Labour) in Turin has been devastated by fire. The unoccupied exhibition hall, originally built for Italia'61, had been undergoing renovations.

Pier Luigi Nervi in the Palazzetto dello Sport, a venue he designed for the 1960 Summer Olympic Games. (Photograph by Mark Kauffman, in Life magazine, June 7, 1960.) ...

Other key works of Nervi, who died in 1979, include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (with Marcel Breuer and Bernard Zehrfuss,1950); Milan’s Pirelli Tower (with Gio Ponti, 1950), and Stadio ...

Parabeton -- Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete (Photography and Beyond -- Part 19/Decampment of Modernism -- Part 1) The art of concrete as a medium rivets the eye of the film world's most acute ...

Drawing extensively on examples from his own career, Pier Luigi Nervi stated the advantages of prefabrication in reinforced concrete construction stressed again a recurrent theme of his Charles ...

In 1954, Ada Louise Huxtable mounted an exhibition for New York’s Museum of Modern Art called The Modern Movement in Italy: Architecture and Design. “Italy’s outstanding contribution in the field of ...

The Chrysler Museum of Art put together an exhibit on Pier Luigi Nervi, the architect who designed Norfolk Scope Arena. He's known for his use of reinforced concrete. Skip Navigation.

Parabeton -- Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete (Photography and Beyond -- Part 19/Decampment of Modernism -- Part 1) The art of concrete as a medium rivets the eye of the film world's most acute ...