Luzern: Quart Verlag. Attilio Muggia e Pier Luigi Nervi, il fecondo e complesso rapporto tra un grande maestro e un discepolo illustre. ), Attilio Muggia. He has been awarded Gold Medals by the Institution of Structural Engineers, the American Institute of Architects, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. Greco, C. 2010. In: Bettazzi, MB and Lipparini, P (eds. For me this rule is absolute and there aren’t exceptions”. Pier Luigi Nervi (21 June 1891 – 9 January 1979) was an Italian engineer and architect.He studied at the University of Bologna graduating in 1913. Pier Luigi Nervi was born in Italy. In 1952, Marcel Breuer, Bernard Zehrfuss and Pier Luigi Nervi, under the supervision of an international group of five architects (Lucio Costa, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Ernesto Rogers and Sven Markelius) were commissioned with the construction of the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, on Place de Fontenoy, in front of the École Militaire and the Eiffel Tower. He attended the University of Bologna and became a professor of engineering at Rome University in 1946. Geschiedenis. From this period onward he designed and built some of the most extraordinary industrial and civil buildings (the Turin Exhibition, the Pirelli Skyscraper in Milan with Gio Ponti, the Papal Audience Hall at Vatican City) and exhibition and sports facilities, in particular for the 1960 Rome Olympics. Una storia per gli ingegneri, 211–21. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946 to 1961 and is known worldwide as a structural engineer and architect and for his innovative use of reinforced concrete. Pier Luigi Nervi: Dai primi brevetti al Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Torino, 1917–1948. Pier Luigi Nervi was one of the leading figures of the post-war Italian economic miracle. Pier Luigi Nervi werd geboren op 21 juni 1891 in Sondrio, een dorp in het noorden van Italië.Hij heeft civiele techniek gestudeerd aan de Universiteit van Bologna, waar hij in 1913 afstudeerde.In 1915 ging hij het leger in vanwege de Eerste Wereldoorlog en heeft daar als ingenieur gediend tot 1918.. ABOUT PIER LUIGI NERVI The main idea of Nervi’s work is the static; he said: “Always in my engineering work I observed that the static suggestions interpreted and defined with patient work of research and proportioning are the most effective fonts of architectonic inspiration. Pier Luigi Nervi's work is typically seen in terms of its performance and expression, but the role of fabrication and construction in his designs has rarely been fully acknowledged.