āFritz Langās production designersāErich Kettelhut, Otto Hunte and Kurt Vollbrechtāshaped the fictional city of Metropolis by re-imagining contemporary Manhattan. [T]hey spliced the city with buildings inspired by avant-garde European architectsāamong them, Cubist architects from the Bauhaus School; expressionists, like Erich Mendelsohn; Le Corbusier, with his vision of high-rise cities; and ā¦ the Italian Futurist Antonio Sant’Elia, whose āCittĆ Nuova,ā presented his future city as a multi-level megastructure shot through with daring interconnecting bridges and vertiginous aerial walkways.ā (CNN)
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