Giuseppe Ciribini (20 January 1913 – 24 July 1990) was an Italian

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and

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, considered the father of the discipline of architectural technology in

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Biography

Giuseppe Ciribini was born in

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on 20 January 1913. He studied

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at the

Polytechnic University of Milan The Polytechnic University of Milan (, abbreviated as PoliMi) is a university in Milan, Italy. It is the largest technical university in the country, with about 40,000 enrolled students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and higher ...

where he graduated in 1936 with a dissertation about Italian rural housing, supervised by Prof. Giuseppe Sacchi. During

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Ciribini served in the Corps of Engineers of the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force). In 1948, after the war, Ciribini became

of ''Elementi costruttivi'' (literally: ''building elements'') in

. Later he moved to the

Polytechnic University of Turin The Polytechnic University of Turin (, abbreviated as PoliTO) is the oldest Italian Public university, public Institute of technology, technical university. The university offers several courses in the fields of Engineering, Architecture, Urban ...

where, from 1966 on, he taught architectural technology. Besides

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he also gave lectures in several others universities as in

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, Ulm,

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and

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. In addition to his academic activity, Ciribini conducted significant professional activity as a researcher and manager of several public institutions and committees. Among the most relevant of these was the direction of some projects held by the ''

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'', his cooperation with the ''Ente nazionale italiano di unificazione'' (the Italian representative organisation in

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) and with the CEN). From 1955 to 1961 he directed the ''Comitato Italiano per la produttività edilizia'' (Italian committee for productivity in the construction industry), sponsored by the

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. In politics he was a member of

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and, from 1960 to 1965, he sat as a representative of this party in the city council of

. On 11 September 1989, Ciribini was appointed professor ''

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''. He died in Turin on 24 July 1990. A well-known student of Ciribini is

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, whose dissertation ''Modulazione e coordinamento modulare'' (''

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and modular coordination'') was supervised by Ciribini in 1966. From the academic activity of Ciribini in Turin grew two different trains of thought: one was guided by Lorenzo Matteoli and widely assumed a performance concept approach, while the second, led by Giorgio Ceragioli, applied architectural technology to border-line building contexts as

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s and

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ing.

Bibliography

* ''La casa rustica nelle valli del Rosa, Volume 1'', Giuseppe Ciribini, Centro nazionale universitario di studi alpini, 1943 * ''Organizzazione tecnica: impianto e meccanismi dei cantieri per l'edilizia'', Giuseppe Ciribini, Marzorati, 1952 * ''Tensostrutture'', Giuseppe Ciribini, UISAA, 1960 * ''Metodi e strumenti logici per la progettazione architettonica'', Giuseppe Ciribini, Politecnico di Torino Facoltà di architettura, Istituto di elementi costruttivi, 1973,

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. * ''Introduzione alla tecnologia del design: metodi e strumenti logici per la progettazione dell'ambiente costruito'', Giuseppe Ciribini, Franco Angeli, 1979 - * ''Tecnologia della costruzione'', Giuseppe Ciribini, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma, 1992 * ''Tecnologia e progetto: argomenti di cultura tecnologica della progettazione'', Giuseppe Ciribini, Celid, 1995 -

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