LANGUAGE OF VISION

‘Transparency’ is the distinctive feature of the modern architecture to the general people. Modern people are living in the city of skyscrapers with glass facades, hoping to move in to sophisticated house that is like the glass house by Philip Johnson. The term of ‘transparency’ in architecture is a wholly new word that recognized from modernist in the twentieth century. But significant of ‘transparency’ is not all about property of material, the term has been developed in few different senses. It could be Colin Rowe and Robert Slursky made the

 

In order to explain difference between literal transparency and phenomenal transparency, Rowe and Slutsky introduce kapes’s article, Language of vision. This article clarifies the distinction between literal and phenomenal transparency by comparison to analytical cubism. Different to The Clarinet Player by Picasso, The Portuguese by Braque establishes a primarily shallow space by ambiguity of space division and superimposing plans in different angle. As observer gradually investigate the depth of space by assuming the figure by resolving all scattered planes of substance, they perceive the space in more metaphorical sense. phenomenal transparency tend to be found by feeling of confusion in special reality that perceived by observant or user than the quality of substance. In terms of painting, defined spaces such foreground, middleground and background limite physical fact the depth shown conventional pre-cubist. Articulated presentationif frontally aligned objects in a shallow, abstract space.an equivocal depth reading. In architectural sense, transparency created by implied layes of planes an illusion of spatial depth

 

The definition of transparency in ‘literal’ sense has been defined as a material condition that of being pervious to air and light by use of glass as architectural element in due to the development of construction technology. This development brought wholly new perception toward architecture, perceiving space rather than impression of the façade. In words and buildings, Forty explains aesthetic significance in dissolving the wall as architectural element, and in reversing the traditional relation between exterior and interior. Forty claim it also brought change of buildings connotation in terms of politician. Firstly destruction of rationalism of building that impose the feature of empeiority and athourity and monumentality and it give feeling eems easy to access to public. Accessibility kill the identity of vernecular thing