Word: latticework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideas in house design? Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which makes a specialty of scanning the horizon, last week displayed two from the horizon-or a bit beyond. Both were still in the model stage. ¶ The Geodesic House, which looks at quick glance like an airy, latticework igloo, is the work of ingenious Designer R. Buckminster Fuller (TIME, Nov. 7, 1946, et seq.). Fuller's new design-aims at economy and simplicity. He chose the dome shape in order to cover the largest area with the least surface, and because such a house should be easier...
Gromaire's impressionistic Manhattan, on show in Paris last week, is an overwhelming place. His Brooklyn Bridge is a gigantic stone and steel hammock slung between topless towers. Times Square at Night is a glaring latticework of light and darkness. "The shock of Times Square was almost brutal," Gromaire says. "I have seen photos and colored prints of the 'Great White Way,' but they are empty and meaningless when compared with reality...
Much of Second Threshold is written with Philip Barry's accustomed smoothness, his light talk glancing through the latticework of his troubled tale. The underlying theme is not new to Barry: more than once he pierced to the Puritan inside the worldling, the hair shirt beneath the dinner jacket. Barry was rather fascinated by the guilt that wouldn't come off the gingerbread. But in Second Threshold too much is not explained: Barry never really comes to grips with Bolton, nor Bolton with himself. And the play fishes in waters too dark to hook so flabby a solution...
Some of them were the sort he has been working on for years: textbook-like studies of nerves, bones and blood vessels Others, more recent, turned heads into wire latticework. Done in colored pencil on dark paper, they achieved effects of transparency, roundness and motion in neat, linear arabesques. To Tchelitchew they were not just plays in a clever game but 'work, work, work...