[Book review] Lino Bianco. The Ring metaphor and the spirit of Sofia and other essays, a collection of scientific papers mostly relating to the literature of architectural history

Abstract

As several scholars are engaged in researching architectural history and theory, Lino Bianco, a respected practising architect, academic and diplomat from Malta who was made Member of the Order of Merit of his motherland by its Head of State in 2021, is also preoccupied by these disciplines. This book, having 196 pages including 51 colour and black and white illustrations, was published in the first quarter of 2022 by Kite Group, Malta. This publication is endorsed both by the prominent international Maltese architect and former dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Engineering at the University of Malta Richard England and also by the Chancellor of the same university. As the Director of Research and former Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde Ashraf M. Salama notes, Bianco’s underlying concerns are linked with his investigations of space and time as phenomena involved in the making of architecture.