Transparency in Art and Architecture

It is amazing what an impact “transparency” has made on today’s architecture, and how common place it actually is. Reading these materials feels like a rediscovery of a familiar habit: suggestion of something beyond. We have been told many times during final reviews how our projects could have been better through inclusion of some minute detail. It is enlightening to discover that these detailing of tiny architectural elements is creating of transparency (a phenomenal one, to be specific).
Richness within the pandemonium of cubist painting is quickly accepted with deeper understanding of transparency. Ambiguities of figures force the reader to make interpretations, and these interpretations lead one to a better understanding of the whole. But transparency, when applied to an architectural design, should be conceived somewhat differently. Addition of ambiguity in to an architectural design can be dangerous. It could lead to confusion and misuse of the space. Transparency in architecture should promote clearer legibility of space function and building layout.
It is interesting how transparency is so differently articulated in art and architecture. Transparency in art seems to be created mainly by distortion of elements; while in architecture, transparency is created through disambiguation of elements.