Most involved painting directly on walls, with geometric forms echoing the contours of the rooms or projecting the shapes of windows in them.
Mr. Harnoncourt's intention, as he has said in interviews, is to project the organic shape of the score by bringing tempos into balance.
Its set on Friday at Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — like the group's entire project — took the shape of consistently repetitive, one-chord riff-rock: it descended from music recorded between 1968 and 1974, more or less.
For the last decade he has documented dozens of cities around the world, from Rome to Las Vegas, as part of an continuing project to define the shape of the contemporary city.
Lisa Rappaport has had three children taught by Mrs. Howell, and when one was doing a project about how the shape of a ski affects its function, it was Mr. Howell who taught her the woodworking that allowed her to build skis with different shapes.
The first is a droplet shape prediction code developed as part of this project, which predicts the shape of the solder joint given the input pad sizes, package weight and mask definition, and the second is a commercial nonlinear finite element analysis code, which determines the inelastic dissipation for a given shape.
The first project to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun was undertaken by William Herschel in 1785 by counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.
In the last year alone, five major demolition projects have changed the shape of the central waterfront, with further plans in place for new developments along a five-mile (8km) stretch of the riverbank, from the city's airport in the west to Dundee Port in the east.
Children from 7 to 16 spend a month there, devoting part of their time to building a single sophisticated project — geodesic domes in the shape of virus protein shells, for instance, or parade floats with kinetic sculptures — with the help of professionals from various fields.
Using two stands, rather like puppet booths, in full view of the audience, stagehands make close-up videos of mini-sets, flats and props, which are then projected onto a screen in the shape of a sunburst that hovers over the orchestra.
