Architect: Dante Bini

Blow Up: Dante Bini and His House for a Film Director

Blow Up: Dante Bini and His House for a Film Director

Will McLean

On July 4th, 1964, in Crespellano on the outskirts of Bologna, Italian architect Dante Bini successfully constructed (in less than three hours) a 12m diameter, 6m high, hemispherical reinforced concrete shell structure using the unique pneumatic formwork of a giant balloon. As a student, Dante Bini had studied and admired… Read More