October 11, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: Norman Bel Geddes’s diagram for ‘Highways and Horizons’ Forecasting the automobile’s ability to transform society, industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes planned his Futurama exhibition at the 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair around vehicular transportation systems. The Fair’s theme, “Building the World of Tomorrow,” provided an international stage for Bel Geddes to showcase his optimistic and auto-centric vision of… read more