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

Author: Harold Linton (USA), edited by Xie Jie, translated by Zhang Genlin
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: In addition to form and space, color has the greatest impact on architectural design. If this book provides you with very useful insights, enabling you to deeply understand and appreciate the role of color in overall interior and exterior environmental design, then it 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 fit their surroundings, you will encounter questions like these. Throughout the book, Harold Linton, a renowned expert in architectural color theory and the author of this work, takes on the task of answering these questions and others he encounters in his work, gradually helping you realize that applying color becomes simple, no matter how large or small the project.
The book showcases over 200 examples of color design and application by colorists, demonstrating how to use color to address various architectural design challenges. Linton provides color design examples page by page for the following: residential interiors, cultural spaces, public institutions, retail and commercial applications, and industrial environments.
The content also includes color technology, education, and research, as well as major color hierarchy systems and information about organizations and institutions that guide the continuous improvement of color applications. Additionally, 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 the most important element closely related to architectural design, second only to architectural form and spatial design. This book is a specialized work by a renowned color expert and theorist on the planning and design of color for architecture, interiors, 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 achieve color design in architectural projects by combining graphic and three-dimensional modeling, computer virtual realization, and other methods, tailored to architectural environments 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.