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Beauty's Rigor : Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi /

"Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Per 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 th...

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Autor principal: Leslie, Thomas, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1. Background
  • CHAPTER 2. â#x80;#x9C;Repetition of Identical Sectionsâ#x80;#x9D;: Structural Precasting
  • CHAPTER 3. Precast Ferro-Cement and â#x80;#x9C;Slender Structuresâ#x80;#x9D;
  • CHAPTER 4. â#x80;#x9C;The Harmonious Interplay of Ribsâ#x80;#x9D;: Ferro-Cement as Tiling Formwork
  • CHAPTER 5. â#x80;#x9C;Lines Easily Realizedâ#x80;#x9D;: Piers of Varying Sections
  • CHAPTER 6. Skyscrapers
  • CHAPTER 7. The Late Projects
  • CHAPTER 8. Connecting the Two Cultures of Building
  • CHAPTER 9. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography