Beauty's rigor : patterns of production in the work of Pier Luigi Nervi / Thomas Leslie.
Beauty's rigor : patterns of production in the work of Pier Luigi Nervi / Thomas Leslie.
Beauty's rigor : patterns of production in the work of Pier Luigi Nervi / Thomas Leslie.
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
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GQ 2018/0020
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English
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xvi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Per Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded the possibilities of form and structure. His methods, meanwhile, ingrained his structures with patterns that came directly out of his economical, manual construct...
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Beauty's rigor : patterns of production in the work of Pier Luigi Nervi / Thomas Leslie.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online version: Leslie, Thomas, 1967- Beauty's rigor. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017 9780252099687 (DLC) 2016058952
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GQ 2018/0020
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74VKVGAm50Al
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ISBN
9780252041129 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0252041127 hardcover ; alkaline paper
DDC
720.92
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991024154597302626
