Lino Bianco
Biographic Data
| ID | 6297545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lino Bianco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lino |
| FAMILY NAME | Bianco |
| SIGNATURE | BIANCO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8779-2351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Geohistorical Structural Design Tables for the Building Stones of the Maltese Archipelago
The engineering properties of building materials are essential knowledge when it comes to structural design. In 1885, the Crown Agents for the Colonies published a study on the resistance of Malta stone to cracking and crushing, in an attempt to develop stress design tables for local masonry. This article addresses the evolution of geological maps in the nineteenth century and, then, introduces the content of this publication. The geological form…
Adaptive Re-Use of Historic Covered Markets: A Review of Selected Cases in European Capital Cities
Adaptive re-use is essential for the sustainability of heritage buildings. It ensures cultural and socio-economic benefits through morphing conservation to the regeneration of the urban environs. The rehabilitation of historic covered markets erected in cast/wrought iron in European capitals reinforces this philosophy. Through the critical assessment of case studies on the restoration and adaptive re-use of covered markets in Malta, Spain, and Bu…
Freedom Monument, Malta: Conceptual Design Sketches and Ultimate Realisation
Freedom Day in Malta is the day when the island and its dependencies gained full sovereignty from colonial rule as a free, independent, and neutral republic. The Freedom Monument is a statement of Malta’s struggle for freedom and peace; it symbolises the day when the nation became truly run by the Maltese for the Maltese. Following an introduction to Malta’s historical–political context, this article reproduces and critically describes a set of c…
Virgil Gheorghiu on Communism, Capitalism and National Socialism
The focus of this publication is the study of Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (1916-1992), an important and controversial writer in contemporary Romanian literature, best known for his novel The 25 th Hour.His writings are characterised by the condemnation of the horrors inflicted by Nazism and communism and his critique of capitalism.The book by Iuliu -Marius Morariu presents Gheorghiu's ideas on these three ideologies which dominated the twentieth …
A geohistorical retrospective analysis of cultural heritage buildings: The case of Mosta Dome, Malta
Geocultural activity in seventeenth and eighteenth century Malta
Geocultural activity in seventeenth and eighteenth century Malta
A geohistorical retrospective analysis of cultural heritage buildings: The case of Mosta Dome, Malta
Virgil Gheorghiu on Communism, Capitalism and National Socialism
The focus of this publication is the study of Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (1916-1992), an important and controversial writer in contemporary Romanian literature, best known for his novel The 25 th Hour.His writings are characterised by the condemnation of the horrors inflicted by Nazism and communism and his critique of capitalism.The book by Iuliu -Marius Morariu presents Gheorghiu's ideas on these three ideologies which dominated the twentieth …
Adaptive Re-Use of Historic Covered Markets: A Review of Selected Cases in European Capital Cities
Adaptive re-use is essential for the sustainability of heritage buildings. It ensures cultural and socio-economic benefits through morphing conservation to the regeneration of the urban environs. The rehabilitation of historic covered markets erected in cast/wrought iron in European capitals reinforces this philosophy. Through the critical assessment of case studies on the restoration and adaptive re-use of covered markets in Malta, Spain, and Bu…
Freedom Monument, Malta: Conceptual Design Sketches and Ultimate Realisation
Freedom Day in Malta is the day when the island and its dependencies gained full sovereignty from colonial rule as a free, independent, and neutral republic. The Freedom Monument is a statement of Malta’s struggle for freedom and peace; it symbolises the day when the nation became truly run by the Maltese for the Maltese. Following an introduction to Malta’s historical–political context, this article reproduces and critically describes a set of c…
Geohistorical Structural Design Tables for the Building Stones of the Maltese Archipelago
The engineering properties of building materials are essential knowledge when it comes to structural design. In 1885, the Crown Agents for the Colonies published a study on the resistance of Malta stone to cracking and crushing, in an attempt to develop stress design tables for local masonry. This article addresses the evolution of geological maps in the nineteenth century and, then, introduces the content of this publication. The geological form…
Geography (4 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Building materials and conservation (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (1 works) · Adaptive Reuse (1 works)