COLOUR FOR ARCHITECTURE

COLOUR FOR ARCHITECTURE

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Other Authors: Porter, Tom (Editor), Mikellides, Byron (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Studio Vista 1977
London 1977
Subjects:
Color in architecture
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The effects and meaning of color (a short review)
  • 'The need for colour and light in future man-made spaces' / Faber Birren
  • 'The dialectics of colour' / Dr. Peter Smith
  • 2. Colour in the architectural environment
  • (1) The primitive and ancient environment: The modern concept of form
  • (2) The separate paths of architecture and art: The modern concept of space
  • (3) The artist and architecture: The promise of a new environmental colour tradition
  • 'Colour, competence, and cognition: Notes towards a psychology of environmental colour' / Dr. S. Friedman and Susan Thompson
  • 'The future role of the artist' / Victor Vasarely
  • 3. The functions of colour in architectural settings
  • 'Colour as a function of multi-dimensional space: A new architecture of urban environment' / Victor Pasmore
  • 'The use of colour and texture at Clason point' / Oscar Newman
  • 'The temptation of colour: A legitimate attitude for an architect' / Jean Deroche
  • 'Colour in buildings' / Joseph Esherick
  • 'The colour approach of Piano and Rogers' / Richard Rogers
  • 'On the use of colour in buildings' / Foster Associates
  • 'Notes on a colour palette' / Deborah Sussman and Paul Prejza
  • 'Living in colour' / Jean-Philippe Lenclos
  • 4. A definition of colour for the designer
  • (1) Light
  • (2) Object
  • (3) The eye and brain
  • (4) Psychological factors
  • 5. Test findings, observations and notes on the effects of colour
  • (1) Studies on the psycho-physiological effects of light and colour
  • 'Coloured illumination and the environment' / Prof. Robert Preusser
  • 'The significance of light and colour in the urban environment' / Faber Birren
  • (2) Colour preferences
  • 'The colour currency of nature' / Dr Nicholas Humphrey
  • (3) The effect of colour on our perception of space
  • 'The study and application of colour in extraterrestrial habitats' / National Aeronautics and space administration
  • 6. The natural colour system and its application to interior and exterior environments (The Swedish studies)
  • 'The natural colour system and its universal application in the study of environmental design' / Anders Hård
  • 'Interior space and colour' / Prof. Carl-Axel Acking and Dr Rikard Küller
  • 'The language of colour: Colour connotations' / Dr Lars Sivik
  • Towards the meaning of environmental colour.

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