This
week I have looked into the futurism movement and its impact on the world. What
you may ask is the futurism movement in architecture and design. It’s a movement
that started in Italy at the turn of the 20th century. The most notable proponent
of this was Tommaso Marinetti, and he wrote a manifesto that was part bibliographical
part war mongering. The people who believed in futurism wanted to burn down the
museums and started over, they often thought the best way to do that was thought
war. This movement was short, it only lasted four years but it had rippling effects.
The war mongering ideals where passed on to Mussolini, this helped to grow fascism
into the war machine that it became. Many of the Men who were a part of this movement
where so excited when World War I broke out that they all ran off to fight in
it which lead to most of them dying and ultimately the end of this era. The thing that I found most interesting was
the buildings, most weren’t actually built but they were all about this idea of
gigantic structures that took after industrial factories and dams. They also often
included all the new transportation methods that where coming into play such as
planes, trains, and automobiles.
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| "Manifesto of Futurist Architecture | WIRED." Wired.com. Conde Nast Digital. Web. 6 Feb. 2015. |
