ABSTRACT
The architectural historian and critic Bruno Zevi reflected on the results of the first few years of the Ina-Casa plan in 1952:
Some of the homes will astonish the visitor accustomed to commercial and quantitative buildings, and they will amaze even those workers who have lived in the best of cases in “legalized hovels” Every family that inhabits the new Ina-Casa centers will discover, albeit slowly, that the architect has provided something more than mere functionality, something imperceptible, something that an uncritical mind misses initially, but that one feels when lived in: something that transforms four walls into four walls well considered, and considered affectionately and that ensures the evolution from building to architecture, from a telegram to a letter written with care and love. 1
