All Aspects of Color Resources: Architecture

This book shows groups of colors inspired by nature and how they work on the interior walls of 26 homes. Kaufman's colors are distinctive in that they are designed to capture the nuances of color in nature.

As far back as the earliest Greek temples, color has been an integral part of architecture and possibly one of its least understood elements. Color theory is rarely taught in architecture schools, leaving architects to puzzle out the hows and whys of which colors to select and how they interact, complement, or clash. This illustrated book provides a clear, concise primer on color for designers of every kind. It combines the theoretical and practical, offering the basics on which to build a fuller mastery of this essential component of design. Built examples, exercises, and activities allow readers to apply their learning of color to real-world situations.

This book examines how colour plays a role in even the most upscale architectural designs and structures.

Written for the professional market, this book investigates the development of colour in contemporary architecture with new technologies making large structural expanses of coloured glass possible. The book is divided into two main sections, Architecture and Art including key design philosophies and techniques such as Screen Printed Enamels, Film, Lamination, and Sandblasting.

Based on the “geography of color” analysis method, which Jean-Philippe and Dominique Lenclos have elaborated through years of travel and research, this book examine the palettes of diverse habitats to reveal how geology, climate, light, sociocultural behavior, and the traditions of local residents and construction techniques uniquely shape a landscape’s architectural personality and chromatic character.

This book focuses on the public's demand for attention to the aesthetics of color, as it draws upon the use of color palattes, and examines dozens of the world's exceptional interior design projects, showcasing each project's color design principles and applications in different contexts in home design. Each project accompanied by a color palette diagram, provides a clear analysis of each project's concept and style.

Subtle and allusive, bold and invigorating, color is one of the single most powerful elements in architecture and design. Even its absence makes its presence felt. The choice of colors on offer to interior designers is dazzling and potentially baffling. With reference to a wide range of sources, from nature and fashion to street markets and works of art, the leading designer Terence Conran reveals how to translate such examples into practical strategies for bringing color into one’s space.

This volume studies the deliberate use of color as an essential element of interior and exterior design. The projects document different perceptions and approaches featuring a colorful mixture of international architects and their works: The projects are listed in alphabetical order of the architects and designers.

The vibrant ceramic tiles of Syria and especially Damascus are the subject of this study. Spanning a period from the 13th to the 20th century, the tiles featured in this book exhibit a rich range of influences from Persia, Turkey, China and even Europe. Arthur Millner examines the complex and interconnected nature of architectural ceramic decoration, tile designs, techniques and color palettes, highlighting what is distinctive about Damascus ceramics and how they relate to tiles produced in other parts of the world.

Through drawings by Antoni Gaudí, new and historical photos, plans and an appendix detailing all his works from buildings to furniture, decor to unfinished projects, this volume is a comprehensive presentation of Gaudí's universe as never seen before. On a personal tour through Barcelona, readers discover how Gaudi crafted extraordinary constructions out of minute and mesmerizing details, as he transformed fantastical visions into realities on the city streets.

Sibella Court takes readers on a tour through the Galapagos and Ecuador, Indochine, Turkey, Scotland, and Transylvania as she reveals dazzling patterns, and gorgeous layouts full of color, texture, imagination, and meaning. The book also covers the importance of scents, reminding how fragrances can help transport one to places and spaces.

Interpreting the present in light of the past, eleven renowned architects, historians, scholars, preservationists, and urban planners in Cuba and the United States provide a rigorous examination of Havana old and new that provokes exploration of the ways we look at all cities. More than 350 illustrations juxtapose historical colored postcard images of Havana with recent digital color photographs of the same views.

The first study of the methods and reasons that influenced architects to learn to communicate through color. Architects adapted the pictorial tools of imitation, cartographers' natural signs, military engineers' conventions, and, finally, painters' affective goals to communicate with a broad public. This book features previously unpublished drawings and challenges the established misreading of architectural drawings as illustrations rather than representations, pointing instead to their inherent qualities as independent objects that paved the way for the visual system architects use today.

This gorgeous book takes readers into the private domain of Jacques Garcia, providing unprecedented access into the interiors of the chateau that the great decorator calls home. The chateau is now a treasure trove of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture, art, furniture, and garden design, to which Garcia brought his expertise gleaned from numerous restoration projects, including rooms at Versailles and the Louvre.

A visual journey along the color spectrum that taps into the growing trend for injecting color into home decor with a relevant selection of interiors in every shade and hue. Organized by color, from the purest white to the deepest black, from the hottest pinks, oranges, and reds, to the coolest greens and tranquil blues in between, this book explores and celebrates the current trend for vivid accents and vibrant transformations of domestic spaces.

The contemporary interior design projects featured in this volume focus on monochrome to exuberant colours showing influences from all over the world, reflecting the local architectural traditions and the style of each space with 190 colour illustrations.

Luis Barragan is considered a master of “emotional architecture,” and a genius of color, light, walls, garden, tower, and rooftop. Influenced by the French painter, and landscape architect Ferdinand Bac, Barragan was perhaps first and foremost a landscape architect, and this book spotlights his gardens, and his landscape-based approach to architecture itself centered on the close relationship between landscape, color, and architecture in Mexico and the other places that inspired him.

The range of possibilities suggested by the featured thirty-five gardens in this book, is extraordinary:from Jacques Wirtz's undulating beech hedges that recede into the mist to Penelope Hobhouse's interpretation of the traditional English garden, to Martha Schwartz's Texas creation of red, yellow, and pink painted garden rooms. Every page visits landscapes that have never before been seen by the public, and may never be seen again. International in scope and lavish in its production, this book presents the state of design in landscape architecture.

From Times Square, Greenwich Village, and Coney Island to the visual poetry of New York City streets and skyline, this volume presents a visual color collage celebrating the architecture, culture and people of the City.

An anthology by textile and wallcovering designer Lori Weitzner, this book offers an immersive, sensual, and engaging journey in the world of color as it applies to culture, design, mood, and memory. Each of the ten chapters in this illustrated volume presents a distinct color world through an intimate and often kaleidoscopic perspective, a compilation of the numerous and often shifting associations and emotions we assign to a color or group of colors.

David Oliver demonstrates combinations of light and pigment by using the finest ingredients and technology available today. The book presents his tonal color-by-number system for ceilings, cornices, walls, and woodwork, resulting in a balance of light and color accentuated by various interior elements.

The art and architecture of Persia with its distinctive and opulent heritage stretches beyond the borders of modern-day Iran, from the Abbasid monuments of Baghdad to the Timurid buildings of Samarqand and Bukhara. When Persia was conquered by the Arabs, Persians strove to keep their own language and culture. This publication follows a historical path across the Iranian world as it examines the artistic legacies of Persian dynasties and the makers who created the monumental architecture from palaces, mosques, madrasas, and mausoleums to gardens , brickworks, mosaics and tiles, as well as miniature paintings, calligraphies, carpets, sculptures and ceramics.

This book presents all the fabulous and unexpected ways one can use this rosy hue anywhere in a house from bedrooms, and bathrooms, to kitchens. Filled with inspiring quotes from professional designers, photographs, designer mood boards, and advice on selecting paint, it's organized by how much pink is deployed in any room..

An exploration of red's role in global architecture over the centuries from the earliest structures to today's contemporary creations, red has been one of the traditional, and also cutting-edge colors in the built world. Through photographs with informative text, readers engage with more than 150 buildings from the deep-red and stainless steel of LA's Petersen Automotive Museum to Moscow's red-brick State Museum and beyond.

This volume showcases contemporary residences throughout Southeast Asia from Chiang Mai to Bali, Kuala Lumpur to Java, highlighting tropical and colorful dream houses in their breathtaking natural environments.

Writer and designer Friederike Tebbe explores various ideas on color and one’s personal color spectrum, aiming to promote design competence through a more conscious approach to color. Practical exercises and pictorial analyses help readers to gain an understanding of chromatic nuance.

Celebrating the influence of color in the world of design, this book looks at home and work spaces, and how the application of color can create different outcomes and impacts. It includes eight chapters divided by color: orange, red, blue, green, pink, yellow, neutrals, and black. Photographer Armelle Habib contributes interior shots alongside travel vignettes that tell the story of how different palettes are interwoven into our lives.