smow Blog Design Calendar: June 21st 1891 – Happy Birthday Pier Luigi Nervi!
“Reinforced concrete is the best constructional material yet devised by mankind”, enthused the Italian civil engineer Pier Luigi Nervi in 1956.1
A position Nervi spent a circa sixty year career arguing for, both in innumerable texts and through a canon of varied, and varyingly challenging, constructions throughout Italy, and much further afield. And in doing so Pier Luigi Nervi not only helped advance a popular acceptance of reinforced concrete as a construction material, but also helped develop an argument that in context of our built environment how we construct is, in many regards, more important than what we construct. An argument that has lost none of its contemporaneous since Pier Luigi Nervi first advanced it…….
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: October
What with the sweet afterglow of Vienna Design Week behind us we entered October 2013 full of enthusiasm – not
Visite guidate alle botteghe artigiane di Firenze. Or, how Florence is promoting its traditional crafts.
Hot on the heels of Vienna Design Week 2013 and its very successful “Passionswege” programme news reaches us from Florence