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Pier Luigi Nervi (21 de junio de 1891 - 9 de enero de 1979) fue un ingeniero y arquitecto Italiano. Estudió en la Universidad de Bolonia y se graduó en 1913. Nervi enseñó como profesor de ingeniería en la Universidad de Roma entre 1946 y 1961. Es conocido por su brillantez como ingeniero estructural y su novedoso uso de hormigón armado. Es uno de los máximos exponentes de del movimiento de arquitectura racionalista de los años veinte y treinta.

"The Palace of Labour designed and built by Nervi and his son Antonio for the Turin exhibition of 1961 was the result of a competition held in 1959. The building—containing 85,000 square feet of exhibition space—had to be capable of conversion to a technical school at the end of the exhibition. It was erected in less than eighteen months.

Like Mies van der Rohe's buildings, there is a subtle fusion of structure and space in Nervi's buildings. But whereas Mies searched for free internal space, Nervi's aesthetic is dependent on an energetic exhibition of the structural parts of a building. The Palace of Labour was no exception... the simple 525 feet square shape was divided into sixteen structurally separate steel roofed compartments each supported on 65-foot-high concrete stems. The external walls, entirely clad in glass, wrapped round the perimeter of the building and incorporated large 70-foot-high vertical mullions."

—Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. p245.

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