Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal Colin Rowe and Robert.
The differences between the two projects recall Colin Rowe's and Robert Slutzky's interpreta-tion of different forms of transparency. The first project is closer to the definition of 'literal.
Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal 'Transparency,' 'space-time,' 'simultane-ity,' 'interpenetration,' 'superimposition,' 'ambivalence': in the literature of contem-porary architecture these words, and others like them, are often used as syn-onyms. We are familiar with their use and rarely seek to analyze their.
Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky’s, Literal and Phenomenal Transparency, of 1963, and Juhani Pallasmaa’s later essay, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, of 2005, exemplify both personal theoretical divergences and evidence greater cultural shifts.
Transparency As A Theoretical Matter Of Perception 1202 Words 5 Pages Transparency (Literal vs. Phenomenal) Transparency is defined and understood by most people as “having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly”.
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Ideal Villa and Other Essays Colin Rowe The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England. Preface and Acknowledgments vii Contents 89 225 205 185 159 139 119 Neo-'Classicism'and Modern Architecture II La Tourette Picture Credits The Architecture of Utopia Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal (with Robert Slutzky) Neo-'Classicism'and.
There are probably various sources for this, but my understanding of it starts with Giambattista Nolli's map of Rome (1748). In this map Nolli shaded all the building blocks leaving the streets and open spaces white. The buildings act as 'figures.