UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC981718
Format:
1 online resource (247 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136327599
Content:
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
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Dedication -- ONE Introduction: investigations in the professional palette -- Colour under threat -- Meaning in colour -- The power of colour -- Investigations in the professional palette -- TWO Colour, form and material surface -- Purple shadows -- The perception of form -- Surface -- Material surface: a short history of pigments -- Contemporary pigments -- Pigments and health -- Pigmented materials and the future -- Colour, form and material surface -- THREE The unattainable myth of novelty: Caruso St John -- Colour and cultural tradition -- Victoriana at Bethnal Green -- Fashion and anti-fashion -- Dressing and wrapping -- FOUR An intuitive palette: O'Donnell + Tuomey -- Colour in the ethos of the office -- Colour, form and surface -- Meaning and association -- Seriality in the palette -- FIVE Who's afraid of red, yellow and blue? Erich Wiesner and Otto Steidle -- Artist/architects -- Heroic Modernism -- 'Colour Field' and the emancipation of colour in the 1950s and 1960s -- Authority, originality and the creative impulse -- Wiesner and Steidle: artist/architect collaboration -- Rhythm and blues -- Experimental echoes -- SIX Place, space, colour and light: Steven Holl -- Colour and light -- Temporality -- Location and translocation -- Precision or doubt? -- Space, place and time -- SEVEN Surface and edge: Gigon/Guyer -- Genius loci -- Variety as identity -- High gloss: surface reflectance -- The power of the edge -- EIGHT Memories, associations and the brightness of yellow: AHMM -- Colour in the urban realm -- 'Signing' rather than signage -- Parrots among the pigeons -- Developing the professional palette -- The brightness of yellow -- NINE Synergies and discords: Sauerbruch Hutton -- Between the physical and the visual -- 2D to 3D -- Well-being -- Subverting the form
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Irregularity in the facade -- Harmony and dissonance -- Equilibrium -- TEN Transformational, instrumental colour: UN Studio -- Amorphous space -- The instrumentality of colour -- Experimentation -- Illusion -- Transformational colour -- ELEVEN Navigation, communication and language -- Navigation systems -- The art of communication -- Digital colour space -- TWELVE Playing space: laws, rules and prescription -- The wrong blue: subjective experience and objective recognition -- Laws, rules and prescription: didactic approaches -- Colour choice and composition -- Between pragmatism and the sublime -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Image credits -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version McLachlan, Fiona Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette London : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415597081
Language:
English
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