modernism was born out of a desire to revisit platonic ideas and through the elevation of the so called original forms; the circle, the square, and the triangle and their three dimensional equivalents of the sphere, the cube and the pyramid.
... these pure geometric forms, applied to a set of parallel and equidistant lines which divide a plane or three-dimensional area into a grid, marked a return to the classical golden section as well as an unapologetic homage to modern technology.