Architectural Color: Design of Buildings, Interiors, and Urban Spaces

Author: Harold Linton
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Beyond form and space, color has the greatest impact on architectural design. If this book provides you with very useful perspectives, enabling you to deeply understand and recognize the role of color in overall interior and exterior environmental design, then it has truly fulfilled its value. "What is the impact of color on existing buildings?" "What color effects work best in specific applications?" If you are an architect or designer committed to creating buildings that suit their surroundings, you will encounter similar questions. Throughout the book, Harold Linton, a renowned expert in architectural color theory and the author of this book, takes it upon himself to answer these questions and others he encounters in his work, gradually helping you discover that applying color becomes simple, whether the project is large or small. The book showcases over 200 examples of color design and application from colorists, demonstrating how to use color to address various architectural design challenges. Linton provides color design examples page by page for the following: residential interior spaces, cultural and public institutions, retail and commercial applications, and industrial environments. The book also includes information on color technology, education, and research, as well as major color hierarchy systems and details about organizations and institutions that guide the continuous improvement of color application. In addition, the book features over 200 color photographs showcasing the works of today's most renowned colorists, along with evaluations of successful methods by artists and designers. Color is one of the most closely related and important elements to architectural design, second only to architectural form and space. This book is a specialized work by a renowned color expert and theorist on the color planning and design methods for architecture, interior, and urban spaces. It selects over 200 exemplary works by outstanding color designers from around the world today. Through their innovative concepts and designs, it illustrates how they apply graphic and three-dimensional modeling, computer virtual realization, and other methods to achieve color design in architectural design, combining the building environment and client requirements. The book also introduces related color technology, education, and research. This book is suitable for architects, planners, and students and faculty of related disciplines for study and reference.