MODERN ABSTRACT

In words and buildings by Adrian forty, transparency is described as entirely new term that modern architecture created. The term ‘transparency’ in architecture is used in two different senses, ‘literal’ and ‘phenomenal’ firstly made by article transparency of meaning by Colin Rowe and Robert Slutsky. 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. This creates a huge change in architecture that impressive exterior as a significant of architecture shifted to spatial quality. Single wall house by Christian kerez could be the one that illustrates literal ‘transparency’. The structure is consisted of one concrete wall divided spaces and glass walls that enveloped whole building. Transparency of building brought up ambiguity between outside and inside and by this, space seems to extent to infinity.

In contrast, a definition of ‘transparency’ is described as a simultaneous perception of different spatial locations according to Kepes. In contradiction to cubist paintings that imply third dimension by overlapping objects, architects attempt to express transparency in terms of reality by inevitable confusion. The villa stein by la Corbusier creates an illusion of spatial depth by implied layers of plan that was conveying equivocal meaning.