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A dozen of these round homes were built in northern Milan by Italian architect Mario Cavallè in the 1940s.
We are in Via Lepanto, Maggiolina district, close to the so-called Journalists' Village. The district contains 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 1909 and 1912 in the then-Municipality of Greco. It was a project born following an editorial published in 1911 by Mario Cerati, director of Il Secolo, in which it was denounced how the attention of the government was concentrated only on the working masses and popular urban planning.
