Lucio Blandini

Project Manager
Werner Sobek Stuttgart

Lucio Blandini is working toward completing a PhD degree at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The research is supervised by Prof. Werner Sobek and focuses on “Structural Use of Adhesives in Glass Shells.”

The prototypes built during the research have been presented at Glasstec 2002 and 2004. Many national and international reviews have commented on the uniqueness of the achievements, such as Detail, RIBA journal, L’Arca and Deutsche Bauzeitschrift.

Presentations of the different phases of this research, financed by DAAD and Daimler Benz Foundation, have been done at GPD 2003 as well as at the International Symposium on Shell and spatial Structures (IASS 2004) in France and at the Glass Days in Venice.

After studying structural and architectural engineering in Catania and Bologna (Italy), Lucio Blandini joined the University of Stuttgart and since September 2004 has been pursuing a Master in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania to further his interdisciplinary approach to architecture.