"The Time Machine" project at Franconia Sculpture Park and "The Being Machine" in Native American Country, are multimedia interactive artworks, events where living sculptures, land art and site-specific architecture merge with dance, music, singing and acting. Focusing on "mash up" of genres by overlapping disciplines and multiplying solutions with stimulating unconventional systems, the objective is to close a discipline gap consistent with mainstream culture and linear economy, between traditional architectural practice and multiple design utensils, between performing arts and visual arts.

The body of work constituted by the two "machines" is a radicalization of a hardly new concept of total artistic synthesis derived from Classical Antiquity : a Gesamtkunstwerk; a radicalized total work of art because the synthesis of the arts occurs on multiple levels, not only by combining different disciplines within the same category but also by unifying 2 separated venues and events across performing arts and visual arts. The effort is weaving together an array of art forms able to mend the social fabric in a plurality of ways. A radical choice of not only wanting to create "a story" and "a specific site" where to tell it, but also a complete reversibility of story and actuality, stage and architectural site, coming to the conclusion that architecture is nothing but a branch of stagecraft.

The Time Machine and The Being Machine, paraphrase Being and Time, the 1927 book by German philosopher Martin Heidegger which, by discussing the question of the meaning of "Being", lays down the basis  for  the  "ontological difference", the crucial distinction between Being and beings (entities)  dismissed  from Plato  onwards,  a  difference  between the ontical and the ontological, where the former is concerned with facts that reflect our own utilitarian way of thinking about entities (things, property, money, power, and nature as a standing-reserve, a gigantic gasoline station) and the latter concerned instead with the meaning of Being as a kind of ultimate essence, the oblivion of which caused the western culture nihilism to choose the way of the things instead of the way of the Being; to have instead of to be; the way of the becoming instead of the way of Being.

The 2 theatrical machines are critical junctures between Italian Opera & American Musical. The goal is to bridge dissimilarity between local and global through a cross-cultural approach that links past/memory and future/imagination to the present challenges of the globalized world.

I believe that Architecture alone cannot bring about positive social change. There are exuberant forces  beyond Architecture ability to act as an agent of positive transformation, and sustainability has become an increasingly trite commonplace. Architects are located at one end of the production chain where already exploited resources are dispersed. In the scenario of having multiple approaches and direct involvement in devising and modeling not only communal fabric and public spaces but also private spaces that are not thought as property line from property line realms, the hybridization in the direction of a widened design process involving performing arts, is a sidestepping of the traditional thought about art and architecture function.