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Aesthetics and Technology in Building : The Twenty-First-Century Edition /
"Known for the "soaring beauty" of his designs and the buildings that realized them, Pier Nervi first made his reputation with the Municipal Stadium of Florence, Italy, and added to it with major structures that maximized open internal space, including arenas, field houses, airplane h...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2018]
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| Edición: | The twenty-first-century edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979); 2. Toward Aesthetics and Technology in Building: Pier Luigi Nervi and the Clever Construction of an Ephemeral Success in the United States, 1951-1965; 3. The Genesis of Aesthetics and Technology in Building; 4. The Shape of Beauty; 5. Aesthetics and Technology in Building; I. From the Past to the Present; II. The Plastic Richness of Concrete Cast in Place; III. The Plastic Richness of Precast Concrete.
- IV. The Foreseeable Future and the Training of ArchitectsAfterword. Pier Luigi Nervi: An Aesthetic of Thinking; Index; About the Authors.