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Sant'Elia, Antonio

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Sant'Elia, Antonio. See Futurism.

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	Lines of Thought;Architects' Drawings at the Federal Reserve Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/30/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...sketches by Hans Poelzig, a German expressionist, and Antonio Sant'Elia, an Italian futurist, each immensely satisfying in...of columns illuminated by scintillating reds, the Sant'Elia a rapid-fire rendering of his perfervid visions of...
	Dreaming of the city Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/23/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Balla and Boccioni echo the futuristic architecture of Antonio Sant'Elia and celebrate the cult of urban frenzy. Picasso...realised. These include the futuristic universe of Sant'Elia and Virgilio Marchi, "The Avenue of Tower Houses...
	Still, moving.(David Claerbout) Magazine article from: Afterimage; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...something to happen while the mind creates a sweeping narrative for this motionless picture. Similarly, Kindergarten Antonio Sant'Elia, 1932 (1998) shows children suspended in time while a tree's leaves flutter in a soft wind. The Stack (2002...
	The Independent Traveller: Il Duce was my architect There are towns outside Rome which still stand as monuments to the fascism of the Thirties. By Stephen Wood Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/11/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...is a fluted rocket that soars upwards - a futuristic invention of the pre-Modernist architectural visionary, Antonio Sant' Elia. Pontinia is remarkable enough; but eight miles along the coast is Sabaudia, described by Le Corbusier as "a...
	Baltimore's Science Experiment Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/24/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...roof like huge inverted L's, the strange, translucent duct covers could have been drawn by Italian architect Antonio Sant'Elia when, with feverish imagination, he was imagining the city of the future back before World War I. If the outside...
	DAVID CLAERBOUT Magazine article from: Artforum; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...conjures the temporal relativity created by the emotional perception of such highly charged moments. In Kindergarten Antonio Sant'Elia, 1932, 1997, Claerbout integrates two different media-a black-and-white image of a playground designed...
	Stephen Coates and Alex Stetter, eds. Impossible Worlds: the Architecture of Perfection. Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Manhattan is illustrated, and other familiar architects in the panoply of utopian literature also get a mention: Antonio Sant'Elia, Raymond Unwin, Ernst May, Frank Lloyd Wright and Clarence Stein amongst others. But as well as the obvious...
	THE BIG, BAD VENTS: I KNOW, IT'S ONLY ABOUT AIR FLOW, BUT I LIKE IT Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/26/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...points as natural, if big, seems surreal on this street - like a chunk of Utah geology or the realization of one of Antonio Sant'Elia's 1920s fantasy projects. Whether these structures are horrible (the prevalent view) or macho and sublime...
	Travelling hopefully. (architecture of buildings associated with travel) Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...the trappings of ornament and ancient culture. Sixty years later, arguing from a very different standpoint, Antonio Sant'Elia echoed Ruskin's condemnation of applying traditional architectural forms and values to railway buildings: 'We...
	Is it a photo? Is it a video? Time will tell. David Claerbout creates works that are like moving stills Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/16/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...photograph and integrate a video image within the larger whole. The most memorable instance of this is "Kindergarten Antonio Sant'Elia, 1932." A group of children, frozen in time, play in a schoolyard while the leaves on a pair of saplings Claerbout...

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