The Museum of Modern Art in New York

Abstract Art

modern architecture synthesis

Transparency

quality of sub­stance

glass cu rtain wall

inherent quality of organization

Our feeling for literal transparency

derive from two sources

from cubist paint ing

designated as the machine

in the literature or contemporary architcclurc these words

Transparency

space-time

simu ltaneity

interpenetration

su­perimposition

ambivalence

characteristics of analyt­ical cubism

suppression of depth

contracting of space

definition of light sources

tipping forward of objects

restricted pa lette

oblique and rectilinear grids