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Neo-futurism


Neo-futurism is a late 20th–early 21st century movement in the arts, design, and architecture. It could be seen as a departure from the attitude of post-modernism and represents an idealistic belief in a better future and "a need to periodize the modern rapport with the technological".

This avant-garde movement is a futuristic rethinking of the aesthetic and functionality of rapidly growing cities. The industrialization that began worldwide following the end of the Second World War gave wind to new streams of thought in life, art and architecture, leading to post-modernism, neo-modernism and then neo-futurism.

In the Western countries, futurist architecture evolved into Art Deco, the Googie movement and high-tech architecture, and finally into Neo-Futurism. Neo-futuristic urbanists, architects, designers and artists believe in cities releasing emotions, driven by eco-sustainability, ethical values and implementing new materials and new technologies to provide a better quality of life for city-dwellers.

Pioneered in the late 1960s and early 70s by American architects Buckminster Fuller and John C. Portman, Jr.; Finnish-American architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen,Archigram, a British avant-garde architectural group (Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb and David Greene) based at the Architectural Association, London; American avant-garde architectural group ArchiGO, centered around the Illinois Institute of Technology; Danish architect Henning Larsen; Czech architect Jan Kaplický; Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag; Italian light sculptor Marco Lodola; American concept artist Syd Mead; American theatre screenwriter Greg Allen and Russian poets Andrei Voznesensky, Serge Segay and Rea Nikonova.


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