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Description: FRAMING THE WORK. Towards Organic Geometry is a journey into Midtown Manhattan, New York's center of centers, an architectural time capsule that pays tribute to the spirit of Mies van der Rohe. Mies expressed in monolithic form [the grid] the architectural ideal of our time. From Mies comes the innovative idea of the rigid architectural grid, which, joined together with the grid of Manhattan's streets, forms a three-dimensional structure. In 1970, when I visited the Avenue of the Americas (also called Sixth Avenue) for the first time, I saw that Mies' principles had been realized. It was also clear that form had become a dead-end. As Peter Blake observed, "Form seems to have become an end in itself". I wondered: why not take th