As the view up the driveway

does not feature an angle

on this entry, not many

would see it here – but it

was begging for some let-

tering, even if this particu-

lar face isn’t the one. Why?

It breaks a few legibility

rules, which I will go into

elsewhere, but which in-

clude the font’s very small

counters/negative space.

When in Rome…yes, so what if we’re in

Massachusetts? When the house went up in 1938,

the world had long since moved to Arabic numer-

als, but for love of the Roman format itself, we’ve

drawn them here (using the Bauhaus 93 font, not

around in 1938 either).

Something for the horizontal aperture outside the kit-

chen door on the south side of the house.

How about the north side? Let’s say someone has

come from Cambridge or Lincoln and overshot the

driveway turnoff. They look over their left shoulder

while speeding west. Why not provide something to set

them straight; to brook no uncertainty?

Marcel

Breuer’s

house

PASSENGER

“Was that sixty eight?”

DRIVER

(Looks left)

“Yup”

More

on this

one fur-

ther

down

the

page…

For a Marcel Breuer influence, we explored tubular

steel (as did Breuer with his iconic Wassily chair and

others) & exploit the Gropius’s neighbor’s love of bi-

cycles, their engineering & and their chief component:

tubes (this time, scaled UP). Rolled aluminum, Cor-Ten

or stainless.

Have we inadvertently created

an anachronism? Probably not,

as grid paper at the Bauhaus

would have naturally given way

to coloured-in squares, itself a

naive typography predating the

20th century’s LCD/LED fonts.

Of all the Futura family members, the

only one where the bottom story of

the 8 is the same height as that of the

6 is Futura Light Condensed. See

drawing, next. (FYI: our own

NeoMetro1 borrowed its 4, 6 and 9

from Futura Light).

There’s more to be said regarding this thought experi-

ment, but for now we’ll leave it right here, and say “to

be continued…” - If any of these approaches stuck a

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