Description
Book SynopsisColour is architecture’s sharpest tool in the box.
It has indexed everything from the feminine, cosmetic and vulgar to the pure, intrinsic and embodied.
Attitudes to colour are constantly shifting. They have played a central role in the history of architecture: from the polychromy of the ancients to the great white interiors of high modernism; the figurative flourishes of postmodernism to the embodied sublime of contemporary building systems and facades.
In contemporary architecture, colour has emerged as a powerful mode of working and an impactful political proposition. The second digital age has ushered paradigmatic shifts in how architects engage it.
Employing the full spectrum of colour requires a projective mode of action – one that anticipates nascent futures. It aids in the democratisation of visual culture, opening the field to enable a multiplicity of identities by introducing new references and embracing new voices.
This book explores the operative role of colour in current practice by proffering visions not of idealised other worlds, but rather radical reimaginings of our present one.
Features: 100 Architects, Maya Alam, David Batchelor, Galo Canizares, Courtney Coffman, Fala Atelier, Marcelyn Gow, Louisa Hutton, Sam Jacob, Carolyn Kane, Guto Requena, Javier González Rivero, Paulette Singley, Amanda Williams and Mimi Zeiger.
Table of ContentsArticles
Arch-White by Carolyn Kane
Collective Palettes: On Colour and Identity by Courtney Coffman
Digital Colour: A Semi-Technical Reflection by Galo Canizares
Clouds of Colour by Maya Alam
Prismatic by Marcelyn Gow
Colour is a Place as Well as a Thing by Sam Jacob
When Grass is Not Green: Botanising the Asphalt by Paulette Singley
Profiles
Working with Colour by Louisa Hutton
Colour is a Sufficient Material by fala
Notes on the Velocity of Colours by David Batchelor
Colour as Activism by Guto Requena
Case studies
Colouring the Public Realm by Javier González Rivero
‘What Black is This, You Say?’ A conversation between Amanda Williams and Jasmine Benyamin
Final Word: Uncolour by Mimi Zeiger
