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Dante Bini: Architect
No full textThe forthcoming book 'Dante Bini: Architect' will be the most complete survey of the designs and inventions of Dante Bini. McLean has worked closely with Bini to compile and present previously unpublished materials from Dante Bini's personal archive. After studying architecture in Florence, Italy, Dante Bini (b.1932) became interested in the technology of thin-shell concrete domes and was convinced that there must be new (more materially efficient) ways of forming these doubly curved shell structures. Inspired by the relative strength of a pneumatic, air-supported tennis dome, in 1964 Bini successfully constructed a 12 m diameter, 6 m high hemispherical concrete shell structure (Binishell) in three hours, lifting wet concrete from the ground using his patented pneumatic formwork. Bini subsequently developed and patented a number of construction systems for building with air, including Minishell, Binix, Binistar and the Air Lift-Up (ALU) system
Some Remarks on Calabi-Yau Manifolds
No full textThe article under review can be regarded as an announcement of or supplement to results in forthcoming papers of the author and his collaborators concerning quintic threefolds, the Dwork pencil, and its natural generalization to higher dimensions [G. Bini, "Quotients of hypersurfaces in weighted projective space'', preprint, arxiv.org/abs/0905.2099, Adv. Geom., to appear; G. Bini, B. van Geemen and T. L. Kelly, "Mirror quintics, discrete symmetries and Shioda maps'', preprint, arxiv.org/abs/0809.1791, J. Algebraic Geom., to appear; G. Bini and A. Garbagnati, "The geometry of the generalized Dwork pencil and its quotients'', in preparation]
Reply to Claus Riedl's Letter to the Editor re: Antonella Giannantoni, Vittorio Bini, Roger Dmochowski, et al. Contemporary Management of the Painful Bladder: A Systematic Review
No full textReply to Claus Riedl's Letter to the Editor re: Antonella Giannantoni, Vittorio Bini, Roger Dmochowski, et al. Contemporary Management of the Painful Bladder: A Systematic Review
Concrete shells. Discovering Dante Bini
No full textThe process of defining and reconstructing architectural history, but also history in general, is neither linear nor univocal, and of course hardly neutral. Dante Bini is one of those figures who, for various and not always easily identifiable reasons, have not been acknowledged in the landscape of 1960s and 1970s architecture. Dante Bini is the inventor of the Binishell, a technique patented in the early 1960s that uses air pressure to make spherically shaped reinforced concrete constructions. The 1960s were years of great ferment in the Italian political, social, and cultural debate; the world of architecture was going through a phase of revision aimed at renewing traditional building systems, moving towards technological innovation. The conference investigate the practice of Dante Bini, together with Bini himself and the architect and journalist Giulia Ricci. The conference was part of the public program made in collaboration with MAMbo Bologna and the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (12th edition, 2023)
Soils as part of our cultural heritage and past environment records.
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The Villa Antonioni by Dante Bini
No full textAn Inflatable exhibition designed by Will McLean illustrates the remarkable story of the Villa Antonioni designed and built by Dante Bini. This Sardinian villa for Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti demonstrates architect Dante Bini’s unique construction system to most artful effect. A Binishell, whose thin carapace is asymmetrically perforated; a house for artists, built as a work of art and imbedded with the crushed rock of Il deserto rosso. An oculus to not view, but hear the sea and ‘tuned’ cantilevered stone stairs form the visceral ‘performance’ of this house. The commission was awarded to Bini on agreement of client anonymity to be preserved during their occupation of the house. The agreement was honoured and only now, years after Antonioni’s passing this unique collaboration can be celebrated
Reply to Claus Riedl's Letter to the Editor re: Antonella Giannantoni, Vittorio Bini, Roger Dmochowski, et al. Contemporary Management of the Painful Bladder: A Systematic Review.
No full textReply to Claus Riedl's Letter to the Editor re: Antonella Giannantoni, Vittorio Bini, Roger Dmochowski, et al. Contemporary Management of the Painful Bladder: A Systematic Review
Dante Bini e la rivoluzionaria sperimentazione dei gusci leggeri Dante Bini and the revolutionary experiments with thin-shell structures
No full textUN LIBRO SUI PRIMI PASSI DELLA RICERCA DI DANTE BINI, UN ARCHITETTO VISIONARIO CHE DA TOKYO ALLA LUNA HA PROGETTATO CUPOLE SOTTILI IN CAL- CESTRUZZO ARMATO, TRA CUI LA VILLA PER MICHE- LANGELO ANTONIONI A COSTA PARADISO. LA SPERI- MENTAZIONE AL MUSHROOM FIELD A SAN CESARIO SUL PANARO IN PROVINCIA DI MODENA RAPPRESEN- TA L’INIZIO DI UN’AVVENTURA CHE PORTERÀ ALLA REALIZZAZIONE DI MIGLIAIA DI CUPOLE IN TUTTO IL MONDO IN UN CLIMA CULTURALE CHE RESE PENSA- BILE VIVERE E ABITARE SOTTO UNA TENDA (O UNA CUPOLA), IN UN MOMENTO IN CUI SI FONDEVANO UTOPIA ED ESTREMO PRAGMATISMO. L’INNOVAZIO- NE DIVENNE BEN PRESTO UNA NUOVA VOCE ALL’IN- TERNO DELLA RICERCA SULLE STRUTTURE SOTTILI IN CALCESTRUZZO − ESITO FINALE DELL’EVOLU- ZIONE DELLE STRUTTURE VOLTATE − CHE TRA GLI ANNI CINQUANTA E GLI ANNI SETTANTA RAGGIUN- SE RISULTATI FORSE A OGGI ANCORA INSUPERATI
Human-Environment Relationship and Landscape Evolution since Etruscan Times: Case Studies from Apuo-Versilia Plain and Pisa Urban Area (NW Italy)
No full textDuring the last millennia human and natural processes in the Mediterranean Basin have become strongly intertwined, modifying the Earth’s surface in many different ways (Butzer, 2008; Zanchetta et al., 2013). Evident traces of this joint human-nature activity can be detected in coastal areas and alluvial plains, where an enduring synergic relationship commonly occurs between landscape, ancient cultures and society evolution (Butzer, 2008).
A holistic geoarchaeological approach helps understand the history of these areas encompassing both natural and human-induced changes. In this regards interesting cases are the Apuo-Versilia plain and the Pisa urban area.
For instance the Apuo-Versilia plain experienced a discontinuous progradation of the coastline between Etruscan times and the Middle Ages. A change in the progradation rate was documented after Modern Age and was related to an increase in flood frequencies due to the overlap of climate events and human impact (Bini et al. 2013).
Whereas, Pisa is a multilayered city located nowadays on a 4 m-high mound composed of anthropogenic, made-ground deposits dated from the Roman period onwards (Bini et al., 2015). These deposits, totally due to human activities, overlie alluvial, man-modified sediments recording intense human frequentation in a context of a natural environment developed since the early Etruscan age. Changes in Pisa topography through time, quantified using stratigraphic data and the Digital Elevation Model for five historical periods, indicate that the maximum increase in volume and thickness of anthropogenic deposits occurs during the Etruscan-Roman transition, which potentially corresponds to the local onset of the Anthropocene. Integration of DEM analysis with high-resolution stratigraphy allows to reconstruct the spatio-temporal distribution patterns of human frequentation and urban ground growth.
The comparison of these two sectors, therefore, indicates interesting relation between human activity and change in the landscape
Una «nota a margine della Storia» La ricerca su Gerda Taro tra storia sociale e women’s history
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