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Pier Luigi Nervi

1891 - 1979

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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. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946 to 1961 and was known worldwide as a structural engineer and architect and for his innovative use of reinforced concrete, especially with numerous notable thin shell structures worldwide. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pier Luigi Nervi is the 133rd most popular architect (up from 145th in 2019), the 1,572nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,633rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Architect.

Pier Luigi Nervi was a twentieth-century Italian engineer and architect. He is most famous for his work in reinforced concrete, which he used to construct many buildings and bridges.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Pier Luigi Nervi ranks 133 out of 518Before him are Francesco di Giorgio Martini, James Stirling, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Sverre Fehn, Gunnar Asplund, and Aino Aalto. After him are Philibert de l'Orme, Juan de Herrera, Carlo Scarpa, Max Bill, Hans Scharoun, and William Le Baron Jenney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Pier Luigi Nervi ranks 50Before him are Grant Wood, Yevhen Konovalets, Bronislava Nijinska, Michael Polanyi, Alexander Wienerberger, and Cole Porter. After him are Anton Dostler, Hu Shih, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Jacques Lipchitz, John Heartfield, and Takijirō Ōnishi. Among people deceased in 1979, Pier Luigi Nervi ranks 57Before him are Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Louis Durey, Conrad Hilton, Richard Rodgers, Charles W. Morris, and Walther Gerlach. After him are Michael Wilding, Rudi Dutschke, Heinz Reinefarth, Nicos Poulantzas, Nereo Rocco, and Konstantin Simonov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pier Luigi Nervi ranks 1,572 out of 5,161Before him are Francesco Maria Piave (1810), Cecilia Gallerani (1473), Amy Adams (1974), Giovanni Lajolo (1935), Julian Cesarini (1398), and Arsenius the Great (354). After him are Gian Maria Visconti (1388), Licio Gelli (1919), Mondino de Luzzi (1275), Matthias Gallas (1584), Sebastiano Ricci (1659), and Alberto Zaccheroni (1953).

Among ARCHITECTS In Italy

Among architects born in Italy, Pier Luigi Nervi ranks 24Before him are Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484), Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511), Filarete (1400), Baldassare Longhena (1596), Filippo Juvarra (1678), and Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439). After him are Carlo Scarpa (1906), Antonio Sant'Elia (1888), Lina Bo Bardi (1914), Carlo Rainaldi (1611), Michele Sanmicheli (1484), and Luigi Vanvitelli (1700).