German Expressionism and Italian Futurism--utopian architecture

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David B

 

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October 2, 2012

 

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However, utopias were a powerful force in the grey areas where the current status quo was too dissatisfying. Germany in and after the First World War and Italy from Risorgimento to Mosolini’s Fascist regime were two places of this kind. Two artistic movements emerged at this time: German Expressionism and Italian Futurism, pioneered respectively by two imaginative architects: Bruno Taut and Sant’Elia...
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Both Bruno Taut and Sant’Elia’s architecture drawings were unrealistic, but they had socio-psychological reasons behind them. In Lecture on Utopia and Ideology, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur distinguished the negative and positive sides of utopias. For him, the negativity of utopias is the fact that they are social dreaming with no intention for realization or impossible to realize...
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