Neo-futurism
| Neo-futurism | |
|---|---|
Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre, a neo-futuristic skyscraper in Nanjing, China | |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
| Location | International |
| Major figures | Peter Cook, Cedric Price, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Santiago Calatrava, Zaha Hadid |
| Influences | Futurism, high-tech architecture |
| Influenced | Parametricism |
Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture.
Described as an avant-garde movement, as well as a futuristic rethinking of the thought behind aesthetics and functionality of design in growing cities, the movement has its origins in the mid-20th-century structural expressionist work of architects such as Alvar Aalto and Buckminster Fuller.
Futurist architecture began in the early 20th century in Italy focusing on the future, valuing speed, risk and heroism; while Neo-futurism was defined in the 1980s as a broader movement that appeared in the 1950s and continues today.