Case Milanesi. 1923-1973

Title: Case Milanesi 1923-1973. Fifty years of residential architecture in Milan Authors: Orina Simona Pierini, Alessandro Isastia Edited by: Ulrico Hoepli Editore Milano Printed in Italy, 2017. ISBN: 978-88-203-8091-5 Language: Italian, English “The day he was going to get killed, Santiago Nasar got up at 5.30 in the morning to wait for the ship the bishop arrived in. He had dreamed that he was going through a forest of fig trees where a gentle drizzle fell, and for a moment he was happy in the dream, but upon awakening he felt completely dotted with bird crap. “He always dreamed of trees,” said Plácida Linero, her mother, evoking 27 years later the details of that ungrateful Monday. “Last week I had dreamed that I was alone in a tin paper plane that flew without tripping through the almond trees,” he told me. “ “El día en que lo iban a matar, Santiago Nasar se levantó a las 5.30 de la mañana para esperar el buque en que llegaba el obispo. Había soñado que atravesaba un bosque de higuerones donde caía una llovizna tierna, y por un instante fue feliz en el sueño, pero al despertar se sintió por completo salpicado de cagada de pájaros. «Siempre soñaba con árboles», me dijo Plácida Linero, su madre, evocando 27 años después los pormenores de aquel lunes ingrato. «La semana anterior había soñado que iba solo en un avión de papel de estaño que volaba sin tropezar por entre los almendros», me dijo.” Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada “The lack of a vision of an urban environment to be constructed thus prompted architecture to orient its composition towards other horizons, and soon even the spatial research that had produced interiors of great richness and complexity, which in turn had generated original elevations seemed to dry up.