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The celebrated curves of Alvar Aalto represent a natural derivation of this lineage, affirming the exaltation of Nature as a rediscovered locus of human being, a place where ornament and architecture converge in organic resonance.

From "Design of New Words"

The Aesthetics of Ornament

by Filippo Lo Presti 1989

A first and lucid line of inquiry examines the possible relations between the phenomenal world of the sensible and that of the imaginary, assessing within these components of the psycho‑physical system a plausible material appropriation of the various levels of perception ...

The Mystic Machine

Filippo Lo Presti 1989

Projection

What we observe around us represents a projection of our identity. We determine and define our future through the choices and decisions we make. The surrounding environment reflects our essence, as do natural and non-natural events, which continuously highlight its influence. Automation and technological-digital emancipation play a significant role in the intellectual and social development of the context in which we operate; delegating tasks previously performed by humans to the machine allows the individual to be freer in deciding how to spend their time and use their intelligence to improve the state of things and people. Don't fear yourself; achieve what you truly desire.

Projection and Time Machine (Version 2025) Ionone Music - Filippo Lo Presti

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The Mystic Machine

Between acquired languages and stereotyped ones, a fracture opens: not a neutral space, but a zone of friction where knowledge is produced as collision. Here, intuition and reflection do not harmonize; they confront each other, overwrite each other, cancel each other out to generate new forms. Architecture emerges from this very friction, as an act of insubordination against every inherited syntax.

The eternal rhythm of the pendular motion is not a metaphor: it is the primary structure of being. It exposes the binarity that may constitute us, mental light and sensible matter, abstract impulse and the density of the real, an energetic field that cannot be reconciled. Architecture must take this tension as its own material, not to resolve it, but to intensify it ...

Design of New Words

The Mystic Machine

Filippo Lo Presti 1989

The Mystic Machine

Harmonic connections, within the field of intellectual activity,

emerge along the very edge where the word begins to define itself. A first bifurcation of the unity of being is felt in the awareness of a possible zone of dilation within the verb—an expansion that, in the aesthetic realm, would push the limits of definition outward.

Piercing the superficial, “physical” form of the word, treating it as a projection screen for an entire constellation of analogous events, opens the way to an intrusion into spaces situated near the verbal threshold, where meaning loosens and begins to resonate beyond its own perimeter.

The temporal condition of space, beyond decomposing the elements of matter, also enables an analysis of the word itself, transforming its meaning from something merely representational into something formative. Through the object of creation, the models of time and space may be inverted, depending on the new relationship established between the former system of object‑production and the new mechanized process.

By shortening distances, the human being becomes an active participant in one phase of this multifaceted creation, a phase that opens onto a wide range of operative possibilities residing within one’s own mental and physical system ...

Design of New Words

The Mystic Machine

Filippo Lo Presti 1989

A persistent question emerges here, arising both from outside the membrane of the black canvas and from the annulment of black‑on‑black or white‑on‑white in their radical abstraction. Yet we remain far from a true science of architecture, a discipline too often oriented toward linguistic experimentations and insufficiently attentive to its own internal evolution within the spiritual domain of rule. As in Kandinsky, the task is not merely to construct a theoretical apparatus of analytical character, but to probe meaning through associations that are also psychological in nature ...

The Mystic Machine

Museum collections

Museum of Prehistoric Thira

Fira, Santorini, Greece

Museum collections

Museum of Prehistoric Thira

Fira, Santorini, Greece