Sant’Elia was a designer during the time of the Futurist movement who displayed these features in his sketches. With the change of technology Sant’Elia saw the need for a change in the architectural world, from program, materials, to scale, etc. His work displayed futuristic ideals of motion through his use of curves and swoops, to his dream of buildings reaching high into the sky. He also worked with re-designing the power plants that were taking over landscapes as new modes of energy began to thrive. The works he did were like nothing we’ve ever seen before and based solely on the idea of moving forward. It was mentioned that the works of architects should be temporary so that the predecessors could demolish them and advance further instead of being stuck in the past. I believe Sant’Elia’s work and the ideals of futurist architecture come together nicely as they display motion, reject the past, and bring a new sense of life to modern society through design. With each image he shows drastic diagonal angles to represent speed and dynamism as well as light and airy structures that represent the material advancement of the future. Although he tried to avoid monumentality, each work seems very monumental in regards to their drastic heights and heavy appearance. However, with both images he never gives a sense of scale. There is nothing in the image that allows us to relate an object to the building and understand truly how large they are.
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