Da Firenze, LBT è un progetto culturale che promuove il dialogo interculturale e la salvaguardia del patrimonio e della cultura locali attraverso il viaggio e attraverso il turismo dei valori.

Da Firenze, LBT è un progetto culturale che promuove il dialogo interculturale e la salvaguardia del patrimonio e della cultura locali attraverso il viaggio e attraverso il turismo dei valori.


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16-18 February 2011: Degree&Profession Virtual Expo and Florence World Festival

Organized by:
Promo Florence Events – Soc. Fly Events Srl

Project Leader:
Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation

Description:
Degree & Profession© is a project dedicated to graduates, students and professionals and promoted at an international level by the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation within the ethos “Life Beyond Toruism”.

Degree & Profession© was born to satisfy the students’ request to create opportunities for them to enter in contact with the professional world once they finish their studies and to facilitate their professional growth. Therefore this project offers possibilities to young people to present themselves to practitioners and institutions working in different sectors and, on the other side, it provides also the professionals with the possibility to identify and make contact with emerging new talents.
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19-23 March 2012: Domes in the World

ATTENTION: THE CONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO March 19-23, 2012!!!

Conceived by:
Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, Florence

Promoted by:
Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, Florence
University of Florence – Department of Architecture, Representation, History and Design
College of Engineers of Tuscany

The Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation has presented the idea of the International Congress “Domes in the World” on the Life Beyond Tourism® web site (www.lifebeyondtourism.org).

The promoters have received positive feedback evidencing a high level of interest on the topic not only among scientific experts and professionals, but also among enterprises and “non specialists”. In view of a wide attendance to the congress, the simultaneous translation in different languages is foreseen, as described below.

Preliminary Notes
Since its early appearances in Western European funeral buildings of the 6th and 5th millenary B. C., the dome has been widely adopted in architecture primarily for its symbolic reference to the celestial vault. Dome construction was then disseminated initially in the Eastern regions where it acquired civil and religious meanings. Later, as a result  of Palladianism, they appeared in the New World and very New World (Australia), where they were built of earth or masonry, wood, steel, concrete or other materials, using a variety of building techniques from the simplest deducted from the imitation of nature, to the extremely sophisticated structural concepts. No other architectural element is so adept in resuming the building capability achieved by a civilization, stir up deep spatial emotions or, with its peculiar but various shapes, confer special features to a landscape hence attaining a universally intelligible value.
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