A Critical Study on Colin Rowe's 'Transparency' - Focusing on the Analysis of the meaning of 'Time and Simultaneity' implicated in 'Transparency' -

콜린 로우(Colin Rowe) '투명성(transparency) 이론'의 비판적 고찰 - 투명성에 내재된 시간 개념의 분석을 중심으로 -

Colin Rowe's 'Transparency' is one of core ideas applied to 20th Modern Architecture. It implies not only an optical characteristic, the perfectly clear, but also a broader spacial order, a simultaneous perception of different spacial locations. The former connected with physical attribute itself, and the latter deeply with the metaphorical idea of time, 'Simultaneity', embodying a new spacial quality. However, If we analyze the meaning of "Simultaneity" implicated in "Transparency" with the perspective of Henry Bergson's "Duration", there would be only little possibility as a solution to the problem of embodying a new spacial quality in architecture. As such a question emerging, this paper attempts to point out the problem of Colin Rowe's idea, "Simultaneity", and suggest a new architectural design method to overcome its inconsistency by interpretation and application of Bergson's "Image and Rhythm".