Autobiografia della ricerca

Autobiografia della ricerca The essay traces the contents and the role that my book, awarded with a mention at the 2010 Edoardo Benvenuto International Prize, had in my academic career as a researcher and professor of history of contemporary architecture in the faculties of Engineering and Architecture in Italy. The research investigated in the volume focuses on the different construction methods recurring in prestressed works, their static functioning and the design outcomes that characterize some masterpieces of construction in Italy. The story begins with the birth of prestressed reinforced concrete and follows its diffusion in Italy, without submitting to the chronological sequence, but giving voice and figure to the technical and expressive potential that this new material has offered to the construction world. At the basis of this study is my doctoral research dedicated to engineer Riccardo Morandi (1902-1989): the experiments and works in prestressed reinforced concrete of the fifties, which deals with pioneering research on the construction of Italian experimental works of a large engineer, protagonist of the history of architecture and the history of engineering, designer of some of the most innovative works of the twentieth century.