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Pier Luigi Nervi: an engineer, an architect and a builder

2019; Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja; Volume: 71; Issue: 553 Linguagem: Inglês

1988-3234

T Iori, S Poretti,

Medieval Architecture and Archaeology

espanolTodos los trabajos de Nervi llevan el sello de sus cualidades unicas como ingeniero. Al mismo tiempo, siempre estuvieron estrechamente relacionados con las condiciones culturales y sociales, tanto a nivel nacional como mun-dial, que cambiaron considerablemente durante su larga vida laboral (de los anos veinte a los setenta): desde la Primera Guerra Mundial, pasando por la era fascista, hasta el entusiasta periodo de reconstruccion de la segunda posguerra, y los anos de euforia economica hasta la crisis financiera de los setenta. Por esta razon, al revisar sus obras, nos parece que Pier Luigi Nervi vivio no una, sino tres vidas en la que fue un arquitecto moderno, un constructor creador de un nuevo metodo de construccion y un arquitecto estrella internacional. Tres vidas igualmente intensas que coexistieron, se superpusieron e interactuaron pero permanecieron independientes entre si. Este articulo habla brevemente sobre las tres vidas de Nervi. EnglishAll Nervi’s works bear the stamp of his unique qualities as an engineer. At the same time, they were always closely related to the cultural and social conditions both domestically and worldwide, which changed consid-erably during his long working life (from twenties to seventies): from World War One through the Fascist era to the enthusiastic second post-war reconstruction period, and on to the booming years of economic euphoria up to financial crisis of the seventies. For this reason, upon reviewing his works, it seems to us that Pier Luigi Nervi lived not one but three lives in that he was a modern architect, a builder creator of a new building method, and an international star-architect. Three equally intense lives that coexisted, overlapped and interacted but remained independent of each other. This paper tell briefly about the three lives of Nervi.