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.

 "Manifesto of Futurist Architecture | WIRED." Wired.com. Conde Nast Digital. Web. 6 Feb. 2015. .