For several months now, we’ve had a close-up view of a major construction project in a neighboring building. When you buy a top-floor apartment in an Italian condominium building, you often (usually?) also buy the right to some or all of the attic space under the slanted the roof, called the solaio. Where building codes… Continue reading Raising the Roof: Expanding Housing Space Vertically
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Making Room: Italian Stratagems for Living in Small Spaces
^ top cameretta a ponte in Ross’ room in Milan. Where the chair is at right, a desktop slides out, though Ross never used it that way. (This fuzzygraph is Ross’ early work when we got our first digital camera.) Living space is tight in Italian cities, which are often geographically constrained because built into, on top… Continue reading Making Room: Italian Stratagems for Living in Small Spaces
Housing: How Italians Live
During my July trip to the US, I stayed with friends in different cities and types of homes, giving me fodder for reflection on differences in customs, styles, and expectations for housing in the US and Italy. As I have mentioned before, renting an unfurnished apartment in Italy means completely unfurnished, so for our new… Continue reading Housing: How Italians Live