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Examples of Futurist buildings still in use today are Trento railway station built by Angiolo Mazzoni and the Santa Maria Novella station in Florence. The Florence station was designed in 1932 by the Gruppo Toscano (Tuscan Group) of architects, which included Giovanni Michelucci and Italo Gamberini, with contributions by Mazzoni.
Perspective drawing from La Città Nuova by Sant'Elia, 1914.. Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture born in Italy, characterized by long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency and lyricism: it was a part of Futurism, an artistic movement founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who produced its first manifesto, the Manifesto of Futurism, in 1909.
Futurism is a modernist avant-garde movement in literature and part of the Futurism art movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. ... For example ...
WU Vienna, Library & Learning Center by Zaha Hadid. Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture. [2] [3]Described as an avant-garde movement, [4] as well as a futuristic rethinking of the thought behind aesthetics and functionality of design in growing cities, the movement has its origins in the mid-20th-century structural expressionist work ...
An example of this is the famous, but now closed, Johnie's Coffee Shop on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Starbursts: Starbursts are an ornament that is common with the Googie style, showing its Space Age and whimsical influences. Perhaps the most notable example of the starburst appears on the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign.
The Futurist movement was striving to portray speed and forceful dynamism in their art. Boccioni, though trained as a painter, began sculpting in 1912. He exclaimed that "these days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art." [2] The following year Boccioni completed the sculpture.
Retrofuturism builds on ideas of futurism, but the latter term functions differently in several different contexts.In avant-garde artistic, literary and design circles, futurism is a long-standing and well-established term.
Futurism was a 20th-century art movement. The Futurists explored every medium of art, including painting , sculpture , poetry , theatre , music and even gastronomy . The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and others all espoused a love of speed , technology and violence .