Color and shape of architecture

Author: Luo Wenyuan
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Publish Date: 1995-12-01
Features: This book starts from the overall concept of creating architectural images and applies scientific analytical methods to study the role of color in architectural design. The book is divided into seven chapters, using a combination of text and illustrations to explain the significance, characteristics, general methods, and basic principles of architectural color design. Through numerous examples, the book vividly demonstrates how color can express architectural atmosphere, enhance decoration, distinguish and identify, emphasize key elements, and regulate or recreate the shape, texture, scale, proportion, and spatial orientation of architectural images. It showcases both the concrete and abstract expressions of color, basic graphic styles of architectural color design, compositional techniques of architectural color, and typical approaches to color coordination. This book is suitable for architects engaged in architectural and urban planning design, as well as architecture students and faculty.