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Continue to ChatThe 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. - Rem Koolhaas from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/the-grid-makes-the-history-of-architecture-and-all-previous-lessons-of-urbanism-irrelevant-it-forces-manhattan