Presentation by :- Aachal Lalwani, Pooja Patil, Mujahid Shaikh.

1. History of Architecture-
IV
Presentation made by
-Aachal Lalwani
-Pooja Patil
-Mujahid Shaikh

2. 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 movement
founded in Italy in 1909
• Contrast to Romanticism
• Speed, noise, machines,
pollution, and cities
• Fearing and attacking
technology

3. 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

4. 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 LIVING
Futurists!”

5. 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. “

6. History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Meanderings of Modernism
FUTURISTARCHITECTURE
-His Ideas..

7. History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Meanderings of Modernism
FUTURISTARCHITECTURE
• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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"
FUTURISTARCHITECTURE

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