The Difference from Avant-garde Futurism: On the Street, and with Sharp Corners

A comparison of two avant-garde styles. Avant-garde Futurism is an interior, continuous, seamless white curved surface, like a cave sculpted by fluid; Avant-garde Urbanism is an exterior at an urban scale, with a silhouette composed of sharp angles, broken surfaces, and fragments, using the real textures of concrete, metal, and glass, with traffic, signs, and pedestrians in the background. One is detached from reality, the other confronts reality. Avoid: making Avant-garde Urbanism a white streamlined curved surface, removing the city street view leaving only the building itself, using seamless finishes instead of real materials, reducing the scale to an interior.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

兩種前衛的對照。前衛未來主義是室內的、連續的、無縫的白色曲面,像被流體雕出來的洞穴;前衛都會是城市尺度的外觀,輪廓由尖角、斷面與碎片組成,材料是混凝土、金屬與玻璃的真實質感,背景是交通、招牌與行人。一個是抽離現實,一個是頂撞現實。避免:把前衛都會做成白色的流線曲面、拿掉城市街景只剩建築本身、使用無縫塗裝取代真實材料、把尺度縮小成室內。