Futurist architecture was a form of architecture from the first half of the century born and theorized in Italy, characterized in its beginnings by strong technical and formal innovation, anti-historicism, exaggerated chromaticism and the use of long dynamic lines, aimed as a whole to suggest an idea of ​​speed, movement, urgency and lyricism. It was part of Futurism, an artistic movement founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who produced his first manifesto, the Manifesto of Futurism, in 1909. The movement attracted not only poets, musicians and artists (such as Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Fortunato Depero and Enrico Prampolini), but also several architects. Among the themes of the Futurists were the cult of the machine age and even the glorification of war and violence as a vitalist impulse towards renewal: several prominent Futurists died after volunteering to fight in the First World War. In this last group was the architect Antonio Sant'Elia (1888-1916), who, although he built little, translated the Futurist vision into urban form.[1]​.

Also in a more general sense, it would be an orientation of architectural design of the 20th and 19th centuries whose inspiration would recall elements of science fiction or spaceships, without forming a specific school or thought.

Futuristic architecture can be characterized like this:

• - It is the architecture of calculation, reckless audacity and simplicity; the architecture of reinforced concrete, iron, glass, cardboard, textile fiber and all substitutes for wood, stone and brick, which allow maximum elasticity and lightness to be obtained.

• - It is not an arid combination of practicality and usefulness, but is still art, that is, synthesis and expression;

• - Oblique lines and elliptical lines are dynamic, which by their very nature have an expressive power a thousand times greater than that of horizontal and perpendicular lines.

• - Decoration, as something superimposed on architecture, is an absurdity, and the decorative value of futurist architecture depends only on the use and original arrangement of the raw or seen or violently colored material.

• - Just as ancient men were inspired, for their art, by the elements of nature, futuristic architecture must find that inspiration in the elements of the very new mechanical world that has been created.