Mario G. Salvadori Lectures, 1954-1986

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Series II. 2018 additions, 1954-1986, 1954-1986

In 2018, Matthys Levy donated additional materials related to Mario G. Salvadori's lecture. These materials include campus lectures (not part of class) such as Salvadori's University Lecture (1979) and the The Aesthetics of Technology series (1986). There are also notes from a course on optimization and a biographical sketch of Pier Luigi Nervi for the MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects.



Box 2 Folder 9 A Meditation on Ruins, 1979

(University Lecture series.)


Box 2 Folder 10 The Brooklyn Bridge as a Work of Art, 1983


Box 2 Folder 11 Computer Aesthetics: A New Culture, 1984


Box 2 Folder 12 Art and Technology in the Evolution of Cultures, 1986

(The Aesthetics of Technology, Lecture I)


Box 2 Folder 13 The Semiotics of Art and Technology, 1986

(The Aesthetics of Technology, Lecture II)


Box 2 Folder 14 The Message of Architectural Structure, 1986

(The Aesthetics of Technology, Lecture IV)


Box 2 Folder 15 Nuclear Winter, undated


Box 2 Folder 16 Structure and Beauty, undated


Box 2 Folder 17 Optimal Structures, 1954

(Notes for a course on Optimization)


Box 2 Folder 18 Draft of a biographical sketch of Pier Luigi Nervi, 1980

(For the MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects)