Konstantin Grcic

The Architecture of the Object: Konstantin Grcic and the Dual Nature of Transparency In 1963, the architectural theorists Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky published a seminal essay titled 'Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal', fundamentally altering how we perceive space. They argued that transparency was not merely a physical condition — the literal quality of being see-through, like a glass curtain wall — but also an intellectual one. Phenomenal transparency, they posited, describes a spatial or cognitive order, a layering of planes and grids that allows the mind to "see" the underlying logic ...