A Century of Futurist Architecture: From Theory to Reality

Abstract

The Italian Architect Antonio Sant’Elia is considered the father of Futurist Architecture, the one who envisioned the future of cities on the basis of the native population’s work culture and habitual traits. It has been a century since his ideas were introduced in his ‘L-Architettura Futurista - Manifesto’ and later circulated by F.T. Marinetti, today they are making a prodigious impact on the architecture style of the entire world. His revolutionary ideas percolated through the murky aftermath of 19th & 20th century art movements. His out-worldly pre-modernist principles gave rise to the notion of exclusive habitats for generations and started the post-war trend of housing typologies as an industrialized and fast track medium of creating ample habitats. This review paper outlines the ideas and design theory of Antonio Sant’Elia through the advancements and achievements of the 20th & 21st century architects and their significant difference with the rest of historical architecture along with identification of elements of futurist principles in different architectural movements. The paper also makes a deliberate attempt to establish a timeline of developments within the said premise for futurist architecture.

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“…Metodologi yang digunakan pada penelitian ini menggunakan konsep Design Thinking yang adalah sebuah proses berpikir kreatif dalam memecahkan masalah atau pekerjaan. Desain Thinking memiliki 5 tahapan yaitu Emphatize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, dan Test [8], [9], [10], dan [11]. Tahapan pelaksanaan pekerjaan riset ini dapat dilihat pada Gambar 1.…”

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“…It is observable that speed is an inspiration in the fantasy of the future as the formation of vehicles and industrial cities such as automobiles and aircraft led to the discussion on the concept of 'speed' in the Futurism Manifesto of the Italian poet Marinetti (1909). This artistic movement rejected traditional, idealised forms, and the focus is on the idea that technology can create an urban revolution (Asim and Shree, 2018). In Antonio Sant'Elia's 'Futurist Architecture Manifesto', it is emphasised that idealised forms and traditional architectural problems are abandoned with this perspective.…”

“…'Perfect elegance of steel beam' and 'reinforced concrete fineness' should be preferred to the bulky appearance of marbles (Bernardo and Palmero Iglesias, 2017). Maximum flexibility and lightness should be provided by using materials such as steel, glass and brick (Asim and Shree, 2018).…”

“…In the 'Città Nuova' (New City) project, which he started work on in 1913, Sant'Elia designed a metropolis that provides remedies to the collective problems of industry and population growth (Asim and Shree, 2018). His vision was to reject buildings' individual existence and design a large, stratified, integrated, industrialised and mechanised urban structure around the city's 'life'.…”

“…Fig.2Different street-level connections(Asim and Shree, 2018) …”