Vesper #16 | The Archipelago of Houses

Vesper #16 | The Archipelago of Houses

The home – be it skin, a carpet, a shadow, a hut, a shelter or a fortress – is the place where the idea of the world manifests itself: the idea of belonging to the world or claiming possession of a part of it. Homes, like islands or lifeboats in a seething sea, form the archipelago of the city and of society. In 1948, in the magazine “Volontà”, Giancarlo De Carlo addressed the issue of the home: ‘In the home, people are reduced to the level of b…