Pier Luigi Nervi (Masters of World Architecture) [Paperback]

Ada Louise Huxtable (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: George Braziller (June 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080760223X
• ISBN-13: 978-0807602232
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,826,614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars 36 selected works, well illustrated in B&W, December 29, 2005

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Eugene Tenenbaum "reluctant reader" (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pier Luigi Nervi (Masters of World Architecture) (Paperback)

This exclusively black & white and copiously illustrated hardcover survey of 36 major works from 1930 to 1959 was published in 1960 by George Braziller in English on only 128 pages. An introductory part on 20 pages is followed by 80 pages of excellent B&W mainly photos, but also hard line plans, sections and details. The book is ended with a biography, writings, list of works, bibliography, etc. on several pages. Most of only B&W illustrations are photos of a good quality, well balanced, crisp and legible. Like all from the Masters of World Architecture/Makers of Contemporary Architecture series, it is solid among architectural monographs, while having only slightly bigger and sharper photos than in the comparable Studio Paperback series published by Birkhäuser Verlag under ISBN: 37643* (Basel)/08176* (Boston) or Artemis Verlag under ISBN: 37608* (Zürich)/18740* (London), and slightly smaller than in the the Library of Contemporary Architects/Masters of Modern Architecture series.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 7
Text 9
Plates 33
Notes to the Text 113
List of Works 115
Brief Chronology 117
Honors 117
Bibliography of Books and Articles written by Pier Luigi Nervi 119
Selected Bibliography on Pier Luigi Nervi 121
Sources of Illustrations 123
Index 125

5.0 out of 5 stars Concrete art at its finest, June 14, 2006

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Humberto Mejia "Still alive and kicking" (Perth, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pier Luigi Nervi (Masters of World Architecture) (Paperback)

My Profile: I work for a worldwide cement company (www.holcim.com)

Nervi's work is the ultimate in form-structure-art. A true master of a structural engineer he was also an architec. IHe makes concrete be an art and certainly is the reference to have when someone calls concrete a dehumanizing material. As we say in our field "bad concrete is cobcrete's worst enemy".

This book will expose you to concepts you do not see now-days.