"Shells were not being done in the United States at all, and I started seeing pictures of these buildings coming out of South America... Italy and Spain... they happened to be all Latin countries. ...I thought, "God, how do I do this?" you know, these three-dimensional curved structures... [T]he greatest of them all... was Nervi... I found out that I couldn't find out how to design... them. ...I realized after many years of striving that a lot of them really didn't know how to design them. They were just doing it intuitively, and that was not satisfactory to an engineer. I needed to know a rational way of doing it, and that sent me back to school and... to studying... [I]t took me years and years of very hard intellectual work to find ways to do this. ...[W]hen I finally did it, I was one of the few guys in the country that had really made that much effort, and so I became a pioneer..."
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