Futurist architecture
Posted on:4/11/2006
| Futurist architecture born as the architectural vision inside the Futurism, an artistic movement lasted in Italy from 1909 to 1944 animated by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, with works by notable figures such as architect Antonio Sant'Elia and the artists Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Fortunato Depero, Enrico Prampolini, etc.: it is characterized by anti-historicism and his forms suggest speed, dynamism and strong expressivity, absolutely adequate to the modern times. |
Futurist architecture born as the architectural vision inside the Futurism, an artistic movement lasted in Italy from 1909 to 1944 animated by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, with works by notable figures such as architect Antonio Sant'Elia and the artists Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Fortunato Depero, Enrico Prampolini, etc.: it is characterized by anti-historicism and his forms suggest speed, dynamism and strong expressivity, absolutely adequate to the modern times.
After that, Futurism has become a more generic word to designate the broad trend in modern design which aspires to create a sort of prophetycal architecture, normally thought to be at least 10 years into the future. So the beginnings of Futurism go back to the visionary drawings of Italian architect Antonio Sant'Elia, as well as the Googie architecture of 1950s California and subsequent Space Age trends, to the Deconstructive style. Futurism have not a style but an open approach to the architecture, so has been reinterpreted by different generations of architects across several decades, but is usually marked by striking shapes, dynamic lines, strong contrasts and use odf advanced materials.
Architects who have been influential in the futurist architecture include:
Virgilio Marchi
Louis Armet
Welton Becket
Arthur Erickson
Wayne McAllister
Oscar Niemeyer
William Pereira
Zaha Hadid
Frank Gehry
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