History of Architecture-

IV

Presentation made by

-Aachal Lalwani

-Pooja Patil

-Mujahid Shaikh

History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Meanderings of Modernism

• The Italian Futurism is the first art movement that can be considered an avant-garde movement.

• They introduced with their art an ideological interest that affected deeply culture and even social costumes, when denies all the past, substituting it by stylistic and technical experimentation.

History

• International art movementfounded in Italy in 1909

• Contrast to Romanticism• Speed, noise, machines,

pollution, and cities• Fearing and attackingtechnology

History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Meanderings of Modernism

• Futurist painters made the rhythm of their repetitions of lines

• Inspired by some photographic experiments, they were breaking motion into small sequences, and using the wide range of angles within a given time-frame all aimed to incorporate the dimension of time within the picture

CHARACTERISTICS

History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Meanderings of Modernism

F T MARINETTI THE FIRST FUTURIST

Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, 1909

“It is in Italy that we are issuing this manifesto of ruinous and incendiary violence, by which we today are founding Futurism, because we want to deliver Italy from its gangrene of professors, archaeologists, tourist guides and antiquaries…….. For the dying, for invalids and for prisoners it may be all right. It is, perhaps, some sort of balm for their wounds, the admirable past, at a moment when the future is denied them. But we will have none of it, we, the YOUNG, STRONG and LIVINGFuturists!”

History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Meanderings of Modernism

FUTURISTARCHITECTURE~ Antonio Sant'Elia (1888 – 1916)

“ No architecture has existed since 1700. A moronic mixture of the most various stylistic elements used to mask the skeletons of modern houses is called modern architecture. The new beauty of cement and iron are profaned by the superimposition of motley decorative incrustations that cannot be justified either by constructive necessity or by our (modern) taste, and whose origins are in Egyptian, Indian or Byzantine antiquity and in that idiotic flowering of stupidity and impotence that took the name of neoclassicism. “

History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Meanderings of Modernism

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-His Ideas..

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• 1. That Futurist

architecture is the architecture of calculation, of audacious temerity and of simplicity;

• the architecture of reinforced concrete, of steel, glass, cardboard, textile fiber, and of all those substitutes for wood, stone and brick that enable us to obtain maximum elasticity and lightness

Antonio Sant'Elia (1914), Drawing

History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Meanderings of Modernism

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2. That Futurist architecture is

not because of this an arid combination of practicality and usefulness, but remains art, i.e. synthesis and expression

Antonio Sant'Elia (1914), Power Station

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3. That oblique and elliptic

lines are dynamic, and by their very nature possess an emotive power a thousand times stronger than perpendiculars and horizontals, and that no integral, dynamic architecture can exist that does not include these

Antonio Sant'Elia (1914), House with external elevators

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4. That decoration as an element

superimposed on architecture is absurd, and that the decorative value of Futurist architecture depends solely on the use and original arrangement of raw or bare or violently coloured materials

Antonio Sant'Elia (1914), Drawing

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5. That, just as the ancients drew

inspiration for their art from the elements of nature, we—who are materially and spiritually artificial—must find that inspiration in the elements of the utterly new mechanical world we have created, and of which architecture must be the most beautiful expression, the most complete synthesis, the most efficacious integration

Antonio Sant'Elia (1914), Drawing

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6. That architecture as the art of

arranging forms according to pre-established criteria is finished

7. That by the term architecture is meant

the endeavour to harmonize the environment with Man with freedom and great audacity, that is to transform the world of things into a direct projection of the world of the spirit

History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Meanderings of Modernism

The most famous example which was considered to be-the first Futurist constructive invention

The Lingotto building was avant-garde, influential and impressive—Le Corbusier called it "one of the most impressive sights in industry", and "a guideline for town planning"

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Meanderings of Modernism