The expansion of the word is, in essence, the topic that most closely concerns architecture.

The interpenetration of immobile and mobile bodies, the concept of out-of-scale, the tension between dynamic and static, the mania for grandeur: all these elements, observed through the eye of knowledge, interact in memory and correlation, within an intentional game that surpasses them.

The eye of knowledge - a magical expression of an awareness not yet reached, of an unknown but present knowledge - does not limit itself to being a critical tool, but becomes a perceptual-critical-creative device. In the context of experimentation, it proposes to compare and expand the listed elements, unifying meanings and relating them. The expansion of words amplifies the perceptual field, modulating the thickness with which images are perceived.

Architecture itself is an expansion of the word: the out-of-scale of the idea, the imagination of the future as a sign of present and past, the history of the image sculpted not by the hand of the stonemason, but by the mind of the thinker-creator.

When analyzing a historical period, one tends to criticize it and draw from its theoretical contents an amplification of our models. This phenomenon could stop at this stage; but if, beyond the conclusions, the different groups of known elements are correlated, it becomes possible to amplify their meaning on a broader level. Thus, new perceptions of the elements - read in a different way - generate energy for the third eye, the same one now analyzing this problem.

In the analysis of the Avant-Garde and its language, the eye of knowledge proceeds in this direction, indicating the historical verifications deduced from the cognitive act.

Seeing, as already established, is subjective; and it is precisely in subjectivity that freedom is recognized. Seeing through perspective means placing the point of view: man at the center of the universe, his golden measure, the imitation of the divine, the geometric symbolization of the human figure, the language of creation. Photographic expansion in movement, photodynamics, and the same out-of-scale elements of our discourse intertwine in simultaneous correlation in the reading framework of the Avant-Gardes - painting, sculpture, architecture, music - in other words, in the language of art.

From "Design of New Words"
The Expansion of the Word in Art and Architecture by Filippo Lo Presti 1989