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Showing posts with label Antonio Sant'Elia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antonio Sant'Elia. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Since One Must Be Arbitrary

“In or about December 1910, human character changed.
I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden,
and there saw that a rose had flowered, or that a hen had laid an egg.
The change was not sudden and definite like that. But a change there was, nevertheless;
and, since one must be arbitrary, let us date it about the year 1910.”
 
Virginia Woolf, Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown1924



Hugh Ferriss - Philosophy - 1929

Antonio Sant'Elia - Project For The New Cemetery In Monza - 1912

Iakov Chernikov - Pantheons of the Great Patriotic War - 1942-45
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The fact is that around 1910 a certain space was shattered. It was the space of common sense, of knowledge (savoir), of social practice, of political power, a space hitherto enshrined in everyday discourse, just as in abstract thought, as the environment of and channel for communication; the space, too, of classical perspective and geometry” 
Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, 1974

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Quirino De Giorgio

"The utter antithesis between the modern world and the old is determined by all those things that formerly did not exist. Our lives have been enriched by elements the possibility of whose existence the ancients did not even suspect. Men have identified material contingencies, and revealed spiritual attitudes, whose repercussions are felt in a thousand ways."

Antonio Sant'Elia, Manifesto of Futurist Architecture, 1914

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 Quirino De Giorgio - Project for a stone lighthouse, 1931

Quirino De Giorgio - Project for a lighthouse with a 
luminous beam for the Yugoslavian border, 1931

 Quirino De Giorgio - Memorial to the dead at Sea, 1931

 Quirino De Giorgio - House near the sea with helicopter, 1931


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"5. That, just as the ancients drew inspiration for their art from the elements of nature, we—who are materially and spiritually artificial—must find that inspiration in the elements of the utterly new mechanical world we have created, and of which architecture must be the most beautiful expression, the most complete synthesis, the most efficacious integration"

Antonio Sant'Elia, Manifesto of Futurist Architecture, 1914