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The grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. it forces manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. the grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. the grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.
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The Grid Makes The History Of Architecture

Rem Koolhaas
The grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. it forces manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. the grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. the grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.
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