Bianco, Lino

Bio Sketch

Lino Bianco is an architect and researcher active across universities in Malta (Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of Malta) and Sofia (International Academy of Architecture; University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy), with an IAA Professor and Visiting Professor role. His research spans architectural values and perception, and the public reception of architecture through social media.

Key Works

• "Social Media: Third-Person Perceptions of Architecture" (2018, Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii) — an empirical Facebook-based study of public perception of an unconventional house.
• "Architecture, Values and Perception: Between rhetoric and reality" (Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2018) — comparative research on the value gap between architects and civil society.

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Instagrammability
• Iconic Architecture
• Everyday Architecture

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Bianco is relevant to Geoffrey's semiotics & representation, everyday & vernacular, and spectacle & iconic architecture areas. His finding that lay publics prioritize utilitarian reassurance over aesthetic innovation gives empirical grounding to the function-side of the spectacle-vs-function dynamic and to the gap between professional and everyday perceptions of architecture.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Social Media: Third-Person Perceptions of Architecture