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No building has ever been "recognized as excellent from the aesthetic point of view if it is not also excellent from a technical point of view," Pier Luigi Nervi told a packed Lowell Lecture Hall last night.
The internationally renowned innovator of reinforced-concrete building techniques spent his first Charles Eliot Norton lecture discussing the "rapport between technique and aesthetics" in construction. To demonstrate the inseparability of these "material and spiritual" components of architecture, Nervi noted that "no one could feel a comfortable sense of tranquil aesthetic...
Nervi also ascribes the extraordinary aesthetic and emotional success of Gothic architecture to the "inseparable mixture of cold technique and fervid passion" which went into it.
The spiral stairs represent an excellent example of the intimate relation between structure and form conceived by Nervi. Their immediate purpose, Nervi explained, was to prevent the logjams which inevitably occurred when masses of spectators crowded into the traditional interior tunnels. Their construction delayed the completion of the Stadium, yet...
"What is beauty?" Nervi asks. "I am a builder. I am no artist. People tell me some of my designs are beautiful, and I am glad. But I don't aim at beauty." Nervi maintains that the different stresses which different situations place on the physical properties of reinforced concrete...