And the installation, a rigid grid, has deadening, typological implications.
The boxes are tacked to the walls and ceiling in a rigid grid.
Roof gashes — the skylights — echo Burnham's idea for diagonal streets, opening the city's rigid grid.
More influential on the layout of U.S. cities, however, was the rigid grid plan of Philadelphia, designed by William Penn (1682).
You can hardly fault a decision to focus on the label's commercial and creative heyday, but it seems to have placed a rigid grid on the group.
By superimposing a rigid grid of sexual identity over the lives of Calpernia Addams and Barry Winchell, the activists effectively severed the soldier from the love for which he died.
Instead of large-scale developments built on a rigid grid system, Tokyo's boom was powered by small-time building contractors and private individuals building single family homes, informal settlements which were gradually incorporated into the city as a whole.
And Broadway — a native trail, a Dutch path, an English road and an American icon — still defiantly angles across the rigid grid of the Commissioners Plan, helping us see historic relationships in a city with an otherwise short memory".
After the closing ceremony, thousands of volunteers, all dressed in paramilitary-style khaki shorts, white shirts and black caps, rushed from their rigid grid on the field toward the dignitaries sitting on red velvet couches in the blazing sun.
Designing for Nature Prodded by the Hillside Club, a women's organization formed in 1898, planners opted for streets that hugged the curves of the terrain, forgoing the rigid grid imposed on the San Francisco hills.
