ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: During the fifties and sixties Pier Luigi Nervi was commissioned to design several buildings in the United States, from East to West Coast. These projects demonstrate the height of his international success, but also showed all the difficulties that he encountered in the attempt to face a building context very different from the Italian one. Basing this paper on several studies carried out during the past four years, in Italy and in the US, the authors focus on the causes and the effects of this situation, analyzing Nervi’s American work from different points of view and interpreting its complexity as a turning point for architecture and engineering history.
