Northern Milan, where the urban fabric stretches towards Greco Pirelli and the old industrial area of the city, hides one of the most curious residential experiments ever built in Italy: Mario Cavallè’s igloo houses. We are in via Lepanto, Maggiolina district, close to the so-called Journalists’ Village, housing and social housing for the Milanese small and medium bourgeoisie designed by the engineer Evaristo Stefini and built by a cooperative— mainly composed of journalists, publicists, and lawyers—between the 1909 and 1912 in the then Municipality of Greco. A project born following…
