The design is in the Southern California tradition of budget modernism, Mr. Chasen said, describing the style as "simple boxy forms spiced up with some free-spirited dash of color and a hands-on construction process."

Not until Chrysler introduced the aerodynamic unibody Airflow, in 1934, were automobile bodies built entirely of steel and freed from the boxy forms of the 1920's.

And suspended beneath the trees, in a net fixed by six thick ropes, was the boxy form of a supply machine.

Precariously stacked, these boxy forms appear to be gently quaking, as if they might collapse.

Using a spare, Minimalist vocabulary of curved, rounded, cylindrical and boxy forms, Willard Boepple achieves a homespun eloquence in these small-scale wood sculptures.

The house's boxy form is broken only by a towerlike volume containing a central stair hall that vents warm air up and out of the house, since its owners hate air-conditioning.

These were followed by so-called cage works-large, boxy forms within which other forms were set.

Their steam dispersed quickly, so the boxy forms seemed to ripple.

But for years there have been plenty of buildings almost as tall, so many that their boxy forms came eventually to surround City Hall, almost suffocating it; William Penn barely stuck his head above his grim surroundings.

The Greek revival elements, which is why is residence is considered significant, include a boxy form, side-gable roof line, elongated first story windows, and hipped porch roof.