Architectural Color - Design of Architectural, Interior, and Urban Spaces

Author: [USA] Harold Linton (Harold Linton) Editor: Xie Jie / Zhang Genlin
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: In addition to 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 this book has truly fulfilled its value. "What impact does color have 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, the renowned expert on architectural color theory, the author of this book, Harold Linton, takes it upon himself to answer these questions and other challenges encountered in his work, gradually helping you discover that using color becomes simple, whether the project is large or small. The book showcases various aspects of color design and application through more than 200 examples by colorists, teaching you how to use color to address various architectural design challenges. Linton provides color design examples page by page for the following content: 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. Additionally, the book features more than 200 color photographs showcasing the works of today's most renowned colorists, as well as evaluations of successful methods by artists and designers.