Color for Architects (Architecture Brief)
Color for Architects (Architecture Brief)

Author: Juan Serra Lluch

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1616898356

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As far back as the earliest Greek temples, color has been an integral part of architecture but also one of its least understood elements. Color theory is rarely taught in architecture schools, leaving architects to puzzle out the hows and whys of which colors to select and how they interact, complement, or clash. Color for Architects is profusely illustrated and provides a clear, concise primer on color for designers of every kind. This latest volume in our Architecture Briefs series combines the theoretical and practical, providing the basics on which to build a fuller mastery of this essential component of design. A wealth of built examples, exercises, and activities allows students to apply their learning of color to real-world situations.

Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette
Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette

Author: Fiona McLachlan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1136327592

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How do architects use color? Do they adopt a different strategy or starting point for every project? Do they gradually cultivate individual color palettes, which develop alongside their body of built work? Do they utilize, or are they aware of, the body of theoretical work that underpins the use of color in the past, and forms the basis of most of the color systems commercially available today? Informed by the author’s thirty years in architectural practice and academia, this book investigates, documents and analyzes the work of a number of contemporary architects in order to respond to these questions and provide a clear reference of contemporary color use. The book suggests a holistic approach to the integration of color in architecture; through a series of thematic essays, the text explores and reveals underlying principles in color design and application. Case studies include: AHMM Caruso St John Erich Wiesner and Otto Steidle Gigon/Guyer O’Donnell + Tuomey Sauerbruch Hutton Steven Holl UN Studio. The book provides clear insights into how particular contemporary architects use color confidently and intelligently as an integral part of their design philosophy, in conjunction with their choices of materials and finishes. Offering a stimulating view of the history of color theory, and pragmatic advice to practicing architects, this book will be inspiring to both design professionals and students.

Color for Interior Architecture
Color for Interior Architecture

Author: Mary C. Miller

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1997-04-21

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780471127369

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This book examines the major considerations involved in color choice for interior spaces.

Architectural Rendering Techniques
Architectural Rendering Techniques

Author: Mike W. Lin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1985-10-15

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780471289395

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A comprehensive guide to all major types of architectural drawings encompasses a wide range of drawing techniques, professional advice, examples, and information on media, styles, effects, and execution.

Color in Architecture
Color in Architecture

Author: Harold Linton

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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"Color in Architecture: Design Methods for Buildings, Interiors, and Urban Spaces addresses every aspect of color planning and application. Going far beyond a theory-based "textbook" approach to the subject matter, Linton draws on over 200 real-world examples from an international cast of professional colorists. Case studies of various design challenges and solutions are presented in an easy-to-understand workshop format. Each of these studies let you dig a little deeper, giving you significant insight into the practices of professional color designers and illustrating how to clarify the planning concepts, capitalize on the visual properties of color, and select from the range of industrial materials available for both interior and exterior building surfaces."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Interior Color by Design
Interior Color by Design

Author: Jonathan Poore

Publisher: Betterway Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1564960374

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This book demystifies the color design process, promoting the effective use of color in architectural and interior design. Includes hundreds of color swatches for experimenting with color combinations.

Colour for Architecture Today
Colour for Architecture Today

Author: Tom Porter

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2019-08-08

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1134719833

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What role does colour play in our built environment? How are our attitudes to colour changing? What potential do new technologies bring for the use of colour and light in architecture? Combining real examples from practice with colour theory, this book will help you to fully understand the role and impact of colour in our urban spaces. Contributions from leading architects Will Alsop, Legorreta and Legorreta, John Outram, Sauerbruch Hutton and Neuterlings Riedijk accompany those from artists Alain Bony and Yann Kersalé, and from colour researchers such as Kristina Enberg and Anders Hård, who developed the Natural Colour System. Topics include: how and why we see colour methodologies in the documentation of traditional colours the development of new urban palettes recent colour psychology research the effect of light levels on human behaviour dramatic colour effects achievable with light guidelines for future deployment of colour in the built environment. This is a sequel to the immensely influential Colour for Architecture, published in 1976. Much has changed in 30 years; new cutting edge technologies and materials have emerged allowing architects to experiment with colour and light in an energy efficient and sustainable way, paving the way for a more colourful and exciting built environment.

Modern Color/Modern Architecture
Modern Color/Modern Architecture

Author: William W. Braham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-29

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1351725580

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This title was first published in 2002. This really is a text that will fill a long-felt want. A key figure in that history is Amédée Ozenfant, painter, critic and friend of Le Corbusier, who in the first half of this century founded a school in London where he conducted experiments and wrote about color in architecture. Those experiments have been reconstructed for the book, which also includes reprints of his most important articles on the subject. This book provides a fascinating survey of this most contemporary topic that will inspire and inform designers and architects. Color has often been regarded as the final dressing of a building, subject to the vagaries of fashion and left to the client to select. There have been a number of studies of polychromy in the architecture of the more distant past, particularly in relation to modern conservation practices, but there is little or nothing on the architectural color of recent times, and especially within Modernism.

128 Colors
128 Colors

Author: Katrin Trautwein

Publisher: Birkhaüser

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783034603171

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"The numerous hues in standard color finders are based on statistical evaluations and on quantitative assessment. How to choose one color among the many? Color chemist Katrin Trautwein bases her selection on coloring materials whose qualities characteristics are often unique. With this publication she presents a selection of 128 colors particularly suited for use in architecture."--BOOK JACKET.

Inessential Colors
Inessential Colors

Author: Basile Baudez

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-12-21

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0691233152

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The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned to communicate through color Architectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth, polychromy in architectural representation grew and flourished. Basile Baudez argues that colors appeared on paper when architects adapted the pictorial tools of imitation, cartographers' natural signs, military engineers' conventions, and, finally, painters' affective goals in an attempt to communicate with a broad public. Inessential Colors traces the use of color in European architectural drawings and prints, revealing how this phenomenon reflected the professional anxieties of an emerging professional practice that was simultaneously art and science. Traversing national borders, the book addresses color as a key player in the long history of rivalry and exchange between European traditions in architectural representation and practice. Featuring a wealth of previously unpublished drawings, Inessential Colors challenges the long-standing misreading of architectural drawings as illustrations rather than representations, pointing instead to their inherent qualities as independent objects whose beauty paved the way for the visual system architects use today.