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Author(s) -
Stewart Robert
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.219
Subject(s) - underpinning , architecture , futurist , modernism (music) , style (visual arts) , art history , service (business) , telecommunications , engineering , management , sociology , visual arts , history , art , civil engineering , business , marketing , economics
Not for them was the Modernism of neat, smooth, regular solids, notes Banham. ‘The younger megastructuralists clearly saw technology as a visually wild rich mess of piping and wiring and struts and catwalks and bristling radar antennae and supplementary fuel tanks and landing‐pads all carried in exposed lattice frames, NASA‐style. Much of this intellectual underpinning for this picturesque view of advanced technology came, directly or otherwise, from the writings and projects of the Futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia, in spite of the fact that he had been dead since 1916.’ Appreciating Futurism, Robert Stewart of YRM looks at prospects for the modularisation of megastructural transport projects, having been engaged in the vast and largely subterranean development of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, London. He argues for a flexible architecture in the service of mobility.

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