Marinetti launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which was published in La Gazetta dell'Emilia in early February. The French newspaper Le Figaro published it over a week later.
In the Manifesto, Marinetti stated that the past was not to be considered, instead embracing the concepts of youth, violence, speed, the airplane, the car, and the industrial city, citing them all as magnicifent triumphs over nature.
Futurism spead throughout Europe, creating offshoot movements such as Vorticism in the United Kingdom, as well as gaining an appearance in Russia. Unlike Russian Futurism, which only focused on artwork and literature, European Futurism also had roots in architecture, music and film. Futurist works all follow a similar style; architecture is stripped away of curved edges to reveal barebones functionality, music is experimented with by using non-musical objects in interesting ways and theatrical acts employ a rare tactic of making scenes a few sentences long, to name a few defining differences.
Futurism's most influential architect was Antonio Sant'Elia, whose designs, whilst never contructed, were pivotal to other Futurist designers. Other prominent architects are Angiolo Mazzoni, who designed Trento's railway station, and Gruppo Toscano, or the Tuscan Group, an architectural firm which featured designers such as Giovanni Michelucci and Italo Gamberini.
This art movement has influenced design in media such as Blade Runner, Equilibrium and Half-Life 2, and although it didn't see any major activity since the 1930's, it continues to influence the Sci-fi genre and others to this day.
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| Libria, the city featured in Equilibrium, is devoid of any stylistic creativity which fits the emotionless premise of the film perfectly. |
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| The Combine's Citadel is a prime example of Futurist architecture fused with alien technology: A stark contrast from the buildings in the foreground. |
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