1. Technical Inventions and Economies of Construction Site 2. The Berta Stadium and the "Character of the Form" 3. Forms of Concrete for the Regime 4. Projects for the Universal Exhibition of Rome, Shells and Autarky 5. Prefabrication for Military and Industrial Aims 6. Towards the Thin Construction 7. Ferro-cement and Large Shell Roofs 8. Strength to Form and Structural Prefabrication 9. The Unesco Headquarters in Paris: The Perfect béton brut 10. The "Nervi System" 11. Controlled Brutalism: the Sport Palace 12. The Mirage of the Essence of the Matter 13. Monumental Structural Architecture 14. Last Works by Studio Nervi
Alberto Bologna received his master degree in architecture at the
Politecnico di Torino in 2007 and in 2011 he completed his PhD in
History of Architecture and Town Planning in the same University.
Since 2011, he conducts research at the Ecole polytechnique
fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the author of Pier Luigi Nervi
negli Stati Uniti, 1952-1979, `Master Builder of The Modern Age’
and Pier Luigi Nervi ou l’art de la structure, Photographies de la
collection Alberto Sartoris.
Roberto Gargiani has taught the history of architecture in
Florence, Rouen, Paris, Venice and Rome. Currently is the professor
in History of Architecture and Construction an the Ecole
polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the author of Rem
Koolhaas/OMA: The Construction of Merveilles; Le Corbusier, Béton
brut and Ineffable Space, 1940-196: Surface Materials and
Psychophysiology of Vision (with Anna Rosellini); Concrete: from
Archaeology to Invention, 1700-1769; and Louis I. Kahn, Exposed
Concrete and Hollow Stones, 1949-1959.
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