The power of the modular grid is that it is at once a deductive (centripetal) structure and an overall (centrifugal) system. As such it eliminates any notion of a final unity: this unity is given at the beginning, thus there is no struggle to achieve it; it is not a reward.”
—Yve-Alain Bois, Ad Reinhardt, Rizzoli. MOMA, 1991. p.19.