Introduction
Futurism is an art association that was invented in Italy in the beginning of 20th century. It was principally an Italian event, although there were equivalent movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. The Futurists esteemed, brutality, and the developed city, all that characterized the technological victory of humankind over natural world, and they were zealous nationalists.
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The following issues are proposed in the Sant’Elia’s Manifestos in the view of architecture for the future. The decorative should be dong away with. The dilemma of Futurist architecture dilemma must be resolved through flashes of intelligence and through systematic and practical expertise. Everything must be transformed. The roofs and underground spaces ought to be made use of; the frontage must be reduce in its importance, the issues of taste should be transferred from the field of selective moldings, particular capitals and fragile doorways to the broader alarm of bold groupings and masses, and large scale disposition of planes. (Meyer, 1995)
We are obliged to invent and reconstruct the Futurist town like a massive and turbulent shipyard, swift, movable and dynamic in each detail and the Futurist house should be like an enormous machine. The lifts ought not to be longer but be hidden away like tapeworms in the position of stairwells, also the stairwells themselves, made ineffective, must be eliminated, and the lifts should scale the length of the front like the serpents of steel and glass.
The house that is made of concrete, steel and glass, stripped of paintings and sculpture, which are only rich in the natural beauty of its lines and it’s relief, extremely ugly in its automatic simplicity, far above the ground and wider in according to requirement rather than the condition of municipal laws. (Banham, 1960).
In historical civilization and conventions, Sant’Elia projected a vision of a contemporary city that was in the form of a gigantic machine. Central to the stimulating dynamism made possible by his futurist colleagues. Sant’Elia held to the ideal of action and activity. He also swapped standard elegance with the visualization of an immense and tumultuous shipyard as the form human surrounding.The ideals of futurism continue to be an important mechanism of contemporary Western culture the emphasizing on youth, speed, authority and expertise finding expression in a lot of current profitable cinema and culture.
The following issues are opposed in the Sant’Elia’s Manifestos in the view of architecture for the future. The difficulty created in Futurist architecture is not an issue of looking for latest moldings and frames. Instead, it is an issue of tending the strong development of the Futurist house, of building it with the capital of know-how and science, fulfilling the necessities of our behavior and our will, crushing down what is ugly and adverse, forming new forms, new appearances, a new accord of profiles and quantities.
An outstanding feature of Sant’Elia’s plan is his de-emphasis on the independence of constructions. Meaning, his plan choices imitate on the futurist thinking of beauty in movement, and equally request to endorse the unregulated flow of things, persons, vehicles, etc. He displays this idea by joining the different channels of carrying of glass and metal walkways, freeways and railways at diverse heights close to the base of the structure. (Lawrence, 1995).
The skill of building has been able to progress with time, and to pass from one approach to the other, while upholding unchanged the universal features of architecture, since in the course of the past alterations of fashion are recurrent and determined by the alternations of spiritual certainty and political temperament. But reflective environmental transformations are tremendously scarce, changes that unbalance and replenish, such as invention of natural rules, the perfecting of automatic means, the coherent and systematic use of material.
Aesthetically, it is hard to remain unhappy as Sant’Elia, in his descriptions, sheds away the material ground to expose complex and exact structures underneath. The idea strikes him with logic of the impractical. For instance, several buildings disclose that underground gap is not used exclusively in the interests of carrying; instead, as contemporary engineers and planners are set with more complicated and latest constructing methods, they disclose an instinctual excitement to excavate.
Citta Nuova and Sant’Elia’s Message are in part reactions by an architectural society that, with the introduction of new expertise, found itself no longer restricted by the restrictions of customary performance. Sant’Elia reacted to this free will be eagerly encouraging builders to progress with cold computation and temerious courage to fully interpret these new thoughts into performance. (William, 1996).
Another negative issue in Sant’Elia futurist is that instead of presenting life from the inside he decided to focus on the external of the buildings, the real procedures of how these buildings hold themselves is veiled behind the smooth front wall and obscure windows. Similarly the buildings are extremely plain; appealing to Marinetti’s view that nothing is more gorgeous than the steel structure of a house in construction. Nor are the analysis those of a person standing in the interior of one building and looking outwards onto the city. The eye of Sant’Elia’s sketches is incorporeal, hanging somewhere between the street level and the tops of the buildings.
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