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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 McLean has worked closely with Bini to compile and present previously unpublished materials from Dante Bini's personal archive.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
Get PDFThe 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]
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)
The Villa Antonioni by Dante Bini
Get PDFAn 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
The Pneumatically Powered Construction Systems of Dante Bini
Get PDFThe paper will explore the innovative construction methods of the Binishell as well as the subsequent family of pneumatic construction systems developed by Bini including the Binix, Binistar and Minishell systems. The paper will also examine the relative industrial success of these systems and the perceived difficulty in the commercial acceptance of such novel technological inventions and innovations. The paper will use primary sources of research including site visits, interviews with Dante Bini, and original documents including previously unpublished drawings, photographs, and commercial ephemera such as brochures and advertisements
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
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
Sviluppo economico e istituzioni: la prospettiva storica e l'attualità. Scritti in memoria di Massimo Finoia
No full textP. BINI, C. MAZZIOTTA, PresentazioneP. BINI, Introduzione, Massimo Finora, studioso e amicoPARTE PRIMASTUDI DI STORIA DEL PENSIERO POLITICOP. PORTA, Tradizione e innovazione negli studi economici nell’Italia del NovecentoE. ZAGARI, Il corporativismo come presunta sintesi fra liberismo e socialismoP. F. ASSO, Culture economiche a confronto. Una ricerca sulla diffusione del pensieroeconomico italiano negli Stati UnitiG. CONTI ODORISIO, Harriet Martineau tra economia e politicaL. VENTURI, La collana Finora”Scrittori italiani della moneta e della banca”PARTE SECONDAECONOMIA DELLO SVILUPPO E DEL MEZZOGIORNO D’ITALIAG. REY, Recenti indagini sullo sviluppo economico italianoM. D’ANTONIO, La politica dello sviluppo del mezzogiorno tra passato e presenteC. MAZZIOTTA, Capitale pubblico e sviluppo regionale: il caso del MezzogiornoPARTE TERZA ECONOMIA E ISTITUZIONIF. PADOVANO, E. GALLI, How does corporatism affect economic growth?G. C. ROMAGNOLI, La crisi economica in un’economia apertaB. BISES, Pubblico e privato nel finanziamento della culturaG. TRUPIANO, Valorizzazione dell’offerta culturale e sviluppo economico territorialeM. TRIMARCHI, Il valore economico della culturaG. GAROFALO, conclusion
Una «nota a margine della Storia» La ricerca su Gerda Taro tra storia sociale e women’s history
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