Antonio Sant'Elia

 Was an Italian architect and a key member of the Futurist

movement in architecture.
 He left behind almost no completed works of architecture and
is primarily remembered for his bold sketches and influence on
modern architecture.
 Antonio Sant'Elia was born in Como, Lombardy,
 The manifesto of Futurist Architecture was published in August
1914, supposedly by Sant'Elia .IN April 30, 1888
 Works

• Between 1912 and 1914 he made many highly imaginative

drawings and plans for cities of the future.
• A group of these drawings called Città Nuova (“New City”).
• Because he died so young, at the age of twenty-eight, killed in
a war that he was never able to carry these ideas beyond the
few early perspective views, made in 1913 and 1914
• he began a series of design drawings for a
futurist Città Nuova ("New City") that was
conceived as a symbol of a new age. Many of
these drawings were displayed at the only
exhibition of theNuove Tendenze group (of
which he was a member) exhibition in
May/June 1914 at the "Famiglia Artistica"
gallery.
• His extremely influential designs featured vast
monolithic skyscraper buildings with terraces, bridges and
aerial walkways that embodied the sheer excitement of
modern architecture and technology.
Power station (1914)
• , Sant’Elia proposed a vision of a Modern city
that took the form of a “gigantic machine.”

• Sant’Elia embraced the ideal of motion and activity

• Sant’Elia replacwith the vision of an “immense, and
tumultuous shipyard” as the model human
environment.ed classical elegance
Some of the sketches
 Some components of Sant'Elia's futuristic
city:
• The obsession with circulation:
• A striking aspect of Sant’Elia’s design is his de-emphasis on the autonomy of
buildings.
• That is, his design choices for the Citta Nuova implicitly reflect on the futurist
philosophy of beauty in motion, and correspondingly seek to promote the
unfettered circulation of objects – people, automobiles, trains, etc. – through what
Banham calls a “knot”-like design in city planning: each structure is connected to its
neighbors by a “network of multi-level circulation at their feet.”
• In “La Citta Nuova, detail” Sant’Elia
demonstrates this concept by converging the
various channels of transportation – glass
and metal walkways, highways and railways –
at various heights near the base of the
structure.
• Sant’Elia’s Citta Nuova are in part reactions by
an architectural community that, with the advent
of new technologies, found itself no longer
confined by the limits of traditional practice.
Sketches in manifesto
Sketches in manifesto
sketches in manifesto
• he utilized in some drawings “as
much as seven levels [of complex
network of transport services]”
[7] beneath the ground floor to
achieve maximum output.
• The Citta Nuova envisions an
underground network which
responds to the transportation
needs of the community.
By,
• Mariya Dominic
• Mirunalini
• Monisha ram