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editorial #2 – The city is our habitat
#2.1 – Cities of Damaste
#2.2 – Rediscovering the working class district
#2.3 – Tokonama
interview #2-4 – Prometheus is needed! Enzo Masci, stage director
EDITORIAL STAFF : Sebastian Di Guardo; Orazio Caruso
INTERVIEW : Enzo Masci
TRANSLATIONS : Laura Dumbrava; Golnaz Ebrahimi; Haluk Joshua Gurel
The legendary Greek bandit, Damaste, built a standard sized, stone bed. If his victims were too short, they were stretched with a hammer, and if too high, cut into pieces , as long as it did not fit perfectly ; hence its nickname , Προκρούστης ( Procustes , the launderer ) . Probably, Damaste would be, in our times, an Italian architect. In the sixties – seventies, during the immense expansion of the suburbs without identity, many were aware of the loss of the human dimensions of modern housing, indifferent to the Italian building tradition .
