Flexibility in architecture is an omniscient term that came to the fore in the mid-twentieth century as a reaction to strict interpretations of functionalism. It became an especially useful term in addressing the indeterminacy inherent in designing for a multiple, evolving definition of the public. For example, universal space posited an undifferentiated space that would be ‘an event space’, or an ‘open-ended approach to living.’ Perhaps the most exemplary project with this thesis is Mies van der Rohe’s New National Gallery of 1968 which proposed a radical clearing in the historic center of Berlin: an architecture of ‘almost nothing’ that could hold the indeterminate; a free, transparent and open space for art and people. But many other models for flexible, open public structures have emerged as well that question this neutrality. Weded itself into New York City’s culture.