(Sondrio, 1891-Rome, 1979). After receiving the engineer's degree from the University of Bologna
(1913) established a construction company (1920) Pier Luigi Nervi, tried many times the strength of reinforced concrete to resist. A mastery of this material to use as soon as possible and at the time of the functionalism current embrace of fashion thanks to the winning works of art made for concrete raw skins (Municipal Stadium in Florence, 1930-32). Shortly after the concrete structure largely alleviated (Orvieto'daki can not come up to the present aircraft hangar, 1935). During 1940, Nervi, technical and research increasingly plastic "construction materials, acquisition of resistance to the format," began to develop in the direction of (Turin Exhibition Centre, 1948-49). From now on, the works of major (and often useful for a particular use), the largest and aesthetic level of our age, both concrete, and his invention of the ferro-cemento (ferrous cement) structure appears in the use of architects, who became one of the best way to take advantage of. The main works include
Nervi'nin: Gatti wool yarn factory in Rome (1951-53), Paris, Unesco Palace, a conference hall and stairs (1953-57), the Pirelli Tower in Milan (1955-58 , along with Gio Ponti), large and small sports palaces in Rome (1956-57 and 58); Turin Palace of Labour (1961), Montreal Stock Exchange Tower (1965, with Moretti).
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