Pier luigi Nervi DOCX

Title	Pier luigi Nervi
Author	Khaled Dewidar
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Pier Luigi Nervi (1891- 1979). The Marriage Between Architecture and Engineering “Form as Diagram of Forces” Professor Khaled M. Dewidar Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer and architect. He was an Italian structural engineer and architect, well known for his innovative use of reinforced concre...

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Pier Luigi Nervi (1891- 1979). The Marriage Between Architecture and Engineering "Form as Diagram of Forces" Professor Khaled M. Dewidar Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer and architect. He was an Italian structural engineer and architect, well known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete. He studied at the University of Bologna graduating in 1913; Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946 to 1961 and is known worldwide as a structural engineer and architect and for his innovative use of reinforced concrete. Italian engineer and architect, internationally renowned for his technical ingenuity and dramatic sense of design, especially as applied to large-span structures built of reinforced concrete. His important works include a prefabricated 309-foot-span arch for the Turin Exhibition (1949–50) and the first skyscraper in Italy, the Pirelli Building (1955) in Milan. In 1935 the Italian air force held a competition for a series of hangars to be built throughout Italy. Nervi conceived them as concrete vaults, with huge spans, that could be constructed at low cost, and he was commissioned for the project. Between 1935 and 1941 he built hangars in Obertello, Orvieto, and Torre del Lago. All these structures were destroyed during World War II. Each of these early structures showed the growth of conceptual design that resulted from Nervi's ceaseless search for new solutions to structural problems. His creativity was not confined to the design of buildings; during World War II, he attempted to construct vessels made of concrete for the Italian navy, but the project was not completed. 1...