Prof. Francesco Carelli

 

 

Mario Chiattone (1891 – 1957) was a Swiss architect, draughtsman, scenographer and painter, but he was also very active in Italy. Mario Chiattone studied architecture in Milan at the Accademia di Belle. Here, he came into contact with Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni and Antonio Sant’Elia. He then went on to open a studio with Antonio Sant’Elia, with whom he shared a passion for modern architecture. His project for cities, buildings, traffic solutions, are just the same as in the movie “Metropolis” by Frizt Lang. This architecture is characterized by long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency and lyricism. In 1922 Mario Chiattone, being dead his friend in World War, settled in Lugano, where he continued his work as a freelancer, and abandoned his ties with stylistic futurism. Along with St. Elias, it is thought the pair became progenitors of ‘ futuristic architecture.