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Throughout this discussion, transparency is understood as a central, creative aspect of the medium. The text charts its role as a tool in twentieth-century landscape and planning disciplines to its implementation in architectural practice, grounding the discussion in the examples of ‘deconstructivist’ architects and artists. The act of layering is framed as an essential aspect to the medium of transparent paper. It notes how this use developed towards an increasingly creative mode, allowing for increasingly sophisticated forms of spatial analysis - and generation - through the method of layering.
#PROJECTIONS ON TRANSLUCENT PAPER PROFESSIONAL#
The analysis is complemented by a concurrent examination of the role of transparent paper within the professional design process, which at first primarily served to simplify existing processes of drawing production, and changing the patterns of labour within the industry. This discussion extends to its growing significance in the late eighteenth-century in the education of artists and early photographers as a means of reproducing master works, a process through which students would learn the techniques of notable precedents. It begins with a historical summary of its manufacturing and use, documenting the production of its fifteenth-century antecedents and its gradual rise in popularity over subsequent centuries.
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The text provides a deductive reconstruction of the complex relationship between architects and their favourite medium. Existing literature on the topic is scarce, and many instances of these rely on limited or anecdotal sources. The essay describes transparent paper and its operative and theoretical contribution to the practice and education of architects in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
#PROJECTIONS ON TRANSLUCENT PAPER FULL#
The editors have prefaced this with a short summary of the full essay. The following is an excerpt from Fabio Colonnese’s essay, ‘Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment’, published in Digital Modernism Heritage Lexicon (Springer Tracts, 2021).