ARCHITECT Pier Luigi Nervi the Master Builder

Pier Luigi Nervi Master Builder This man was described as "quiet and grey" but with his stern doctrine of integrity, truth, and correctness in building structures he brought technological innovation and esthetical triumph to the landscape of Italy during a forty-year period that spanned from Fascism through the economic boom years. Nervi was born in 1891, in the last decade of the nineteenth century in the Italian Alps town of Sondrio, Lombardy. He attended the University …

…the day. He was awarded Gold Medals by the RIBA, the AIA and the Academi d'Architecture. <Tab/>Nervi's structures are admired all over the world because he combined two opposite frames of mind in one person: the synthetic, intuitive, artistic approach together with the analytic, mathematical, scientific outlook. Also, Nervi's structures are clear, simple, and esthetically satisfying. Beauty, said Nervi, is an unavoidable by-product of this search for satisfactory structural solutions.