Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture born in Italy, characterized by anti-historicism, long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, and urgency: it was part of an artistic movement founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who produced its first manifesto, the Manifesto of Futurism in 1909. The movement attracted a number of architects who tried to interpret the movement in their own work.

Through my research for futuristic architects I found some inspiring architects like:

Tadao Ando: Ando has a strong background in Japanese culture. He was raised in Japan and lives there. Japanese religion and style of life strongly influenced his architecture and design. Ando’s architectural style is said to create a “Haiku” effect, which is emphasizing nothingness and empty space to represent the beauty of simplicity. He favors designing complex spatial circulation while maintaining the appearance of simplicity. A self-taught architect, he keeps his Japanese culture and language in mind while he travels around Europe for research. As an architect, he believes that architecture can change society, that “to change the dwelling is to change the city and to reform society”.

Arthur Erickson: Erickson’s buildings are often modernist concrete structures designed to respond to the natural conditions of their locations, especially climate. Additionally, Erickson is also known for numerous futuristic designs such as the Fresno City Hall.

Michael Graves:  an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five. Graves was known first for his contemporary building designs and some prominent public commissions. Since designing domestic products sold at Target stores in the United States, he has become more widely known. Michael Graves has also become well known in the internet meme community for creating a tea kettle that supposedly resembles Hitler.

Cesar Pelli: an architect known for designing some of the world’s tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks.

Also when I was doing  my research I found another movement of architecture that could be mistaken with futuristic architecture called Blobitecture or Blob Architecture.

Blobitecture:

a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, bulging form. The term ‘blob architecture’ was coined by architect Greg Lynn in 1995 in his experiments in digital design with meatball graphical software. Soon a range of architects and furniture designers began to experiment with this “blobby” software to create new and unusual forms. Despite its seeming organicism, blob architecture is unthinkable without this and other similar CAD programs. Architects derive the forms by manipulating the algorithms of the computer modeling platform.

Another subject I came through in my research,was the idea of Sociocyberneering.

Sociocyberneering:

is the application of technology and science towards problem solving. It is an approach of redesigning society in humanistic terms, and using design as a method of coping with problems of the society and people. So for example, instead of encouraging people to save water, a system is built and designed to already save water. An example for that will be the shift of the regular water faucet design to designing and manufacturing the sensor water faucets that works only when you put an object underneath the faucet opening. And then after you remove that object, it closes automatically.