Movement
Italian Futurist Architecture
Explore in the Atlas →The architectural wing of Futurism, defined by Antonio Sant'Elia's 1914 Città Nuova drawings and Manifesto, glorifying the dynamic industrial metropolis of towers, viaducts and machinery as a deliberately impermanent expression of the modern age.
Production Fantasy
Details
- Origin
- Milan, Italy
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- influenced Russian Constructivism
Sources
- Esther da Costa Meyer. The Work of Antonio Sant'Elia: Retreat into the Future. Yale University Press, 1995.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Italian Futurist Architecture." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/italian-futurism/. Accessed July 17, 2026.