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History of World Architecture

Fourteen Volumes Complete

$2000.00

Publisher:  Harry N. Abrams, New York, U.S.

Vol I: Ancient Arch. p. 4l3, 525 illus.

Vol II Roman Arch. p.360, 436 illus.

Vol III: Byzantine Arch p. 380, 39l illus.

Vol IV: Islamic Arch p. 42l, 529 illus.

Vol. V: Romanesque Arch p. 43l, 437 illus.

Vol VI:Gothic Arch p. 442, 440 illus.

Vol VII Renaissance Arch p. 40l, 538 illus.

Vol VIII: Baroque p. 405, 39l illus;

Vol IX: Late Baroque p. 4l3, 5l4 illus

Vol. X: NeoClassic & l9th c. p. 465, 660 illus,

Vol XI: Modern p. 448, 673 illus.

Vol XII: Oriental p. 435, 528 illus,

Vol XIII Precolumbian p. 335, 363 illus;

Vol XIV Primitive p. 38l, 486 illus.

4to, l4 vol. Orig. Cloth with dust-jackets.

Pier Luigi Nervi was born in Italy in 1891.  He attended the University of Bologna where he studied engineering.  He joined the Italian Army after Italy’s entrance into World War I, where he served in the engineering corps.  After the serving in the army he worked as an architect and designed airplane hangers that were noticed not only for their grace but also for their efficient mode of construction.  These hangers, unfortunately were destroyed by retreating Germans at the end of World War II. 

Nervi went on to teach at the University of Rome were he criticized the direction of modern architecture in the post-war boom years.  He saw what he described as an "unrestrained search for the new at any price…even inconstructibility."  

Some of his most famous buildings include: Giovanni Berta stadium in Florence, the exposition halls at Turin, and three of the Olympic buildings in Rome.  Nervi has also collaborated on such projects as the headquarters of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris and the George Washington Bridge bus station, New York City.  His innovations with reinforced-concrete allowed him to create more graceful structures using concrete.

Pier Luigi Nervi died in Rome on January 9, 1979 at the age of eighty-seven.