Lived Cities, Painted Cities, Designed Cities Italian Futurism (1909-1915)

Abstract

This paper discusses the Italian Futurism movement between 1909 and 1915, focusing on the way in which some of its exponents –painters, sculptors, architects– interpreted the space of their interventions through the conscious record of a particular concept of time concerning their particular work. In the Futurist work, there was a plural temporality –taken in its specific passing-by as speed, or mechanical movement– that was translated in its creative universe as “simultaneity of actions" and “plastic dynamism". Attention is focused on the way cities were lived by some of the Futurism protagonists, portrayed by painters, and designed by the architects.