Transparency

It seems a little strange that in the ideology of phenomenal transparency the experience of conflicts between spaces is desired. Yet these conflicts are what produce an array of interesting relationships between three-dimensional spaces that become legible as layers. These layers of space obtain depth through their ambiguity of planar heirarchy as depicted by Cubism. How phenomenal transparency then translates into architecture (at least Le Corbusier's technique of doing so) is in the contradictions between planar surfaces along-and-parallel-to major and minor axis. As it occurs in Cubism, this is effectively the interpolation of linear grids; a juxtaposition of parts; another form of montage. The montage of layers creates the complex, conflicting, ambiguous relationships between spaces that reads phenomenally transparent. Phenominal transparency relies on both the succession of distinct spaces and the method of distinguishing between them (their relationships). The Bauhaus is criticized because even though it creates a succession of spaces, it does not promote any relationships beyond a connective literal transparency between spaces and layers.