Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLachlan, Fiona, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color in architecture.

Architecture, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 06, 2020)

Other Format:

Print version: McLachlan, Fiona. Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette.

ISBN:

9786613658708

9781280681769

1280681764

9780203121474

0203121473

9781136327599

1136327592

OCLC:

804665800