Freely in space

"Living buildings - city of space - functional architecture.
The new form of the city arises from necessity:

The country city: the division of city and country will be abolished
The time city: time is the measure of organisation of its space
The space city: it floats freely in space in a de-centralized federation dictated by the ground formation
The automatic city: the processes of daily life are mechanized."

Friedrich Kiesler, De Stijl 10/11, vol.6, 1925

Wenzel Hablik - Structure of a colony floating in the air - 1908

Riccardo Falletta Terafina - Plan für eine fliegende Stadt - 2011

via Drawing Architecture

Georgii Krutikov - The Flying City - 1928

Condensed

"Triumph of our I over our Weight, with its treacherous plots to murder our speed and drag it into immobility's ditch. Velocity = scattering + condensation of the I. All the distance covered by a body is condensed in that very body."

F. T. Marinetti, Geometric and Mechanical Splendor and the Numerical Sensibility, 1914
Quoted in Cinzia Sartini Blum, The Futurist Re-Fashioning of the Universe, 1996

Joseph Stella - Telegraph Pole - 1917

Lill Tschudi - Fixing The Wires - 1932

Cassandre - Poster for l'Intransigeant - 1925