“Mastrella has taken on the business of living. His intuitions are the topographies of a collective consciousness, which is devoted to the cut of life and living together. In any of the houses designed by Mastrella it isn't that the rooms live there. One lives there oneself.
That is the fascination of this book; evidence that a degree of pleasure and "spiritual comfort" has been rescued from a civilization as cruel as uncomfortable as our own. In every bit of work he undertakes Mastrella pursues that dream of a small capital imbued with an ancient, classical piece.
A place where man is no longer angs-ridden and cynical; a place where he can refashion a mythology of his own in peace of mind and participate in the intimate integration of things. Because, to some small extent, we are part of things and things part of us.”