04. Antonio Sant'Elia, "Manifesto of Futurist Architecture." Lacerba, 1 August 1914.
Although avant-garde architects struggled with some of the same issues as the Futurist thinkers, few practicing architects joined the movement. In 1914, F. T. Marinetti began courting the architect Antonio Sant'Elia, who had recently exhibited his Città Nuova, and accompanying text, known as the Messaggio, which did not refer to Futurism, but recalled many of its principles and diction. In August of the same year, Lacerba printed a revised and extended Messaggio as the "Manifesto of Futurist Architecture."

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