Color for architects / Juan Serra Lluch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Serra Lluch, Juan, author.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Architecture briefs

Architecture briefs series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color in architecture.

Physical Description:

231 pages : color illustrtions ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2019.

Summary:

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. 0'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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Color Basics

1. What Is Color?

1.1. Light, object, and observer

1.2. Variables that describe color: hue, value, and saturation

1.3. Primary, secondary, and tertiary colors

1.4. Warm and cool colors

1.5. Color temperature of light sources

1.6. Complementary colors

Activities

1. Color Vision and Color Discrimination

2. Metameric Colors

3. Test: Color Basics

2. Naming Colors

2.1. RGB: additive mixing and color-light

2.2. CMYK: subtractive mixing and color-pigment

2.3. CIE color spaces: XYZ, xyY, Lab, LCh

2.4. Color atlases: NCS, Munsell, Pantone, RAL

2.5. Conversion among color systems

Activity

4. Additive and Subtractive Color Mixing

3. Color and Perception

3.1. Color interaction

3.2. Successive color contrasts (influence of time)

3.3. Simultaneous contrasts

3.4. Color Kinetics: advancing and receding colors

5. Interaction of Colors

6. Color Kinetics in 3-D

7. Consecutive Contrast or Afterimages

8. Simultaneous Contrast

4. Combining Colors

4.1. Color harmonies

4.2. Law of surface proportion

4.3. Applications to facilitate color decision-making

9. Color Harmonies

10. Le Corbusier's Color Combinations for Salubra Claviers (1931)

pt. Two Color for the Architectural Project

5. Choosing the Color That Fits the Form

5.1. Color and landscape integration

5.2. Color and shape

5.3. How color describes architecture

11. Analyzing a Project's Colors

12. Architectural Color's Impact on the Urban Landscape

13. Architecture that Appears Integrated from a Distance, Prominent from a Closer View

6. Visual Ergonomics

6.1. Visual ergonomics in the workplace

6.2. Level of illumination, CCT, and CRI of lighting

6.3. Color criteria for the visually impaired

7. Does Architecture Need to Be White?

7.1. Purism, expressionism, and neoplasticism

7.2. The myth of white in modern architecture

7.3. Fewer hues, but not only white

7.4. Colors that not only reinforce shape but also transform it

7.5. Colors with connotations that go beyond the purely aesthetic

7.6. Conclusions: color in modern architecture

14. Color in Modern Architecture and the Myth of White

8. The Meaning of Color

8.1. Color's meaning in context

8.2. Color meanings codified by the architect

8.3. Cultural and conventional color meanings

8.4. Color psychology

8.5. Human reactions to color

15. Color Meanings Codified by the Architect

16. Historical and Cultural Color Meanings

17. Evaluative Dimensions of Color (Emotional Meanings)

18. Color Meanings and Social Concerns in Photomosaics

19. Color meanings and Social Concerns in Anamorphisms

9. Trends in Color and Architecture

9.1. Color tendencies

9.2. Bolder colors

9.3. Computer-aided abstract color compositions

9.4. Changing colors and versatility: transformation, fragmentation, and movement

9.5. Sources: color and architecture

20. Breaking the Color Code

21. Monochromy with Bold Colors

10. Color in Architectural Proposals

10.1. Color attracts attention

10.2. Chromatic hierarchies: dominant color, secondary colors, and accents

10.3. Color and texture

10.4. A digital return to the handmade

10.5. Color and legibility

10.6. Why submit design proposals with color yet build without it?

22. Color in the Architectural Competition

pt. Three Color and Workflow

11. Color in the Work Process

11.1. Nondestructive workflow

11.2. Image file formats

11.3. Recommended image formats

11.4. Color gamut of devices

11.5. ICC color profiles

11.6. Correspondence between profiles

11.7. Color engine

11.8. Rendering intent

12. Calibrating a Monitor

12.1. Calibration is different from characterization

12.2. Monitor calibration

12.3. Monitor characterization

13. Photographing and Editing Colors

13.1. Basic concepts

13.2. White balance

13.3. DNG color profiles for the camera

13.4. Color Swatches

13.5. Photo Editing in Photoshop

14. Printing Color Accurately

14.1. Soft proofing printed colors

14.2. Printer profiling

15. Color in Building

15.1. Technology for measuring color

15.2. Instruments for measuring color

15.3. Software.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781616897949

1616897945

OCLC:

1039210575

Publisher Number:

99986362205