In today's lesson we talked about the past and how did the past affect the future. Pierre Luiggi Nervi, tells it the best. From a lesson taken from its book we learned a lot.
Nervi himself was a builder and at the same time a non-technician. Than he made some researches based on the physical structure of a building and the aesthetic aspect of it. The conclusion of Nervi was that a technical perfect work can be aesthetically impressive, but there does not exist weather in past or present a work of architecture which is exellent in the aesthetic point of view which is not also exellent from the technical point of it. By this fact we learn that good technology is necessary but not a sufficient condition for a good architect.
Most of these things, where a building is in lack of being aesthetic, and is like a default flat or home etc, is when all the work is done by an engineer, and we know that Albania was in lack of architects since almost before two decades.
But there is a question that is worth asking for: "How can an architect build correctly?". Then Nervi, based on some of the features that a building should have, gave us some helpful explanations.
•stability - a building should be resistant to external forces and loads; •durability - usage of proper material while building to make it durable and lasting in time; •function - the building should have a proper proportion of the sizes and spaces, materials with respect of their use, ornaments and maximum result with minimum means. •correctness - stating that the building should serve the purpose for which it was built, it should be stable and survive the external elements of the nature. •material - is connected to the aesthetical sensitivity of the designer to also determinate the inner beauty and validity of the building, models, emphasizes and proportions it
We know that Greek and Egyptian buildings were famous since forever, Nervi made an investigation on them. They were limited in some heavy materials like stone and marble, which 'forced' the builders to make wherever the same static schemes.
In Greek temples were the space between colons was determinated by the monolithic architraves.
Romans made an well-thought invention of thrusting roofs and horizontal forces.
When we see the picture of the Eiffel Tower, after we took this lesson, we can say that the tower is stable even if we remove them. But if we remove them it won't give us the same impression, which means that the arches were intentionally put there, to give a better aesthetic view.