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This discovery is typical of Nervi, of his career and of his whole approach to architecture. Widely regarded as an engineer, Nervi sees himself as an architect and architecture as a practical question of construction. Architecture's aim is to build, and buildings, regardless of beauty, cannot exist on paper; they are possible only when they meet immediate demands of site, specification, and budget. Beauty is desirable, but construction aiming at "economic efficiency," Nervi argues, is architecture's goal...
...Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi will give the first of three Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on "The Relationship Between Aesthetical and Technical Aspects of Building" Thursday night at 8 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall...
Thursday's lecture is entitled "In the Past." Nervi will consider "The Richness of Form of Reinforced Concrete" and "The Education of the Architect" in the following two lectures...
Auld Kirk. Since its beginnings with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the Kirk has held fast to a Calvinism that in one sense is more rigid than John Calvin's. Calvin's influence on John Knox, the great Scottish reformer, made him an architect of the Kirk's bulwark against the papacy. In 1647, Scottish delegates to the Westminster Assembly wed their church to a Confession of Faith that described the Pope as "AntiChrist, man of sin, son of perdition." The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1960 visit to Pope John tested the ground for all Protestantism...
When Luckman's comet burned low in 1950, he went back to architecture in partnership with a gifted Illinois classmate, Los Angeles Architect William L. Pereira. The two built a substantial list of clients, designed the University of California's Santa Barbara campus, the U.S. military bases in Spain, the Berlin Hilton hotel and CBS's Television City in Hollywood. Most of the architecture was frankly Pereira. Luckman wanted to grow bigger and bigger; Pereira wanted to stay small so that he could personally watch over every project from beginning to end. Each got his wish four...