Dante Bini

The Binishell has become emblematic of Bini’s work, but it forms only part of his unique contribution to the worlds of architecture, engineering and construction. His range of creative aptitudes are better encompassed by his phrase ‘Building with Air’, used as the English language title for his professional memoir published in 2014. Whilst Bini’s first construction invention was the Binishell, he has subsequently developed his notion of construction automation through a whole range of patented building systems in reinforced concrete, steel, aluminium and timber, most of which share the common ‘building material’ of differential air pressure. Throughout Dante Bini’s professional life, the outward facing (visual) component of his work and businesses have always been very important; where he has skillfully presented his patented construction systems, including Binishell, Minishell and Binistar in specially designed marketing materials such as brochures, pamphlets and manuals. Bini has always used these materials to explain and animate the sequence (and in some case the timing) of the construction process. Bini was selling both a product and a process; and his patented technologies were successfully licensed to a whole range of companies across the world.