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In the conclusion to his Charles Eliot Norton lectures, Pier Luigi Nervi last night looked into the future to a "vast and spacious architecture" constructed a strict obedience to physical law while maintaining an intrinsic appeal to man's aesthetic sense.
The technical correctness of shapes imposed by physical law, Nervi maintained, constitutes the essential element of the the "'style of truth'" to which man's aesthetic sense instinctively responds.
Using a series of examples from his own work, Pier Luigi Nervi last night illustrated his belief in the close inter-relation between the technical and aesthetic elements in architecture.
Illustrated examples of particular buildings demonstrated the extensive variety and aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete. Slides showed that, in his own work, Nervi has made concrete appear light and graceful in the same way as builders of the high Gothic period did with stone.
Signor Nervi made it quite clear, however, that he does not share this pessimism. In his opinion, the new approach to engineering has revealed vast new technical possibilities which can in turn open equally vast aesthetic vistas if modern materials and techniques are used correctly. In his next lecture (May...