Corpisanti
Luca Ruali/
Until 1873 the municipality of Milan was surrounded by another ring-shaped municipality. It was called 'Corpi Santi' (Holy Bodies) because the Austro-Hungarian legislation envisaged the construction of hospitals, prisons and cemeteries outside the walls and will-o'-the-wisps are even called 'Corpi Santi'. If the 'Corpi Santi' were dangerous constructions that Milan kept away by the law, so www.corpisanti.it it's a diary of Milan's irregular projects and designers written by Luca Ruali, luca@lucaruali.net
