Volume 6, Number 3 · March 3, 1966
A Master Builder
By Nikolaus Pevsner
Aesthetics and Technology in Building
by Pier Luigi Nervi
Harvard, 208, 196 illustrations pp., $9.95
Nervi is one of my few pin-ups. I have met him a number of times and always found him wise, kind, and equitable. He is a man who believes in the ethics of his profession, as strongly as does Gropius, another of my pin-ups. Le Corbusier had neither wisdom nor equitableness nor was he guided by ethics, but he was a genius—a greater architectural creator than Gropius, though a lesser man. Nervi's problem is more complex. He combines wisdom with genius, but can he be called an architectural creator at all? Until 1961-2, when he gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, one could give one's own answer to this question, but it was an answer unconfirmed by Nervi himself.
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