Word: rectilinear
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...trend toward square lines and flat, unadorned slab sides, originated by the 1960 Lincoln Continental but more recently refined and popularized by Pontiac, has spread to the new Chrysler and to American Motors and Ford models. Perhaps the ultimate rectilinear styling has been achieved by the new Mercury, whose squared-off front bumper gives it a cubed look. Even the Cadillac, which abandons its tail fins for the first time in 18 years, has replaced its usual side-panel sculpturing with the slab look...
...machinery for making glass containers. Though in no sense decorated with extraneous embellishments, the building has a warm freedom about it that is almost impossible to achieve in even the best steel and glass boxes. The reason is that the structure is of prestressed concrete. "Steel is prefabricated in rectilinear units, and you have to work with that," says Bunshaft. "With concrete, you have to make your own forms and you can make any form you need." Duck Soup. When Emhart first commissioned SOM, the firm turned out sketches of two-and three-story buildings resting on the ground that...
...building, designed by Architect Ralph Rapson. looks as if Henry Moore had been doodling on it with a jigsaw. Through the holes of the outer facade peeks a structure drawn with a Mondrian ruler in a rectilinear austerity of charcoal grey, white and glass. Suspended over the stairs and lobbies are globes of light, a child's army of upside-down lollipops. The stage itself juts forward like a mammoth home plate with a blunted tip, while a rear portico of four columns supports an upper platform. Around this arena stage sweeps a C-arc of 200°. some...
...make the Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level base board for reference. Wright replied that the old rectilinear frame of reference was "a coffin for the spirit" and admonished them to wait...
...heavy hills around Vienna, had a brisk, bald-bottomed rival in Charles Eames's up-to-the-minute en try in molded Fiberglas and wire. An art nouveau desk (circa 1903) by Hector Guimard that looked as sinuous as weeds under water held its place against a rigorously rectilinear chair by Le Corbusier...