The legendary Greek bandit, Damaste, built a standard sized, stone bed. If his victims were too short, they were stretched with a hammer, and if too high, cut into pieces , as long as it did not fit perfectly ; hence its nickname , Προκρούστης ( Procustes , the launderer ) . Probably, Damaste would be, in our times, an Italian architect. In the sixties – seventies, during the immense expansion of the suburbs without identity, many were aware of the loss of the human dimensions of modern housing, indifferent to the Italian building tradition .
