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Full Spectrum: Colour in Contemporary Architecture book cover

1st Edition

Full Spectrum Colour in Contemporary Architecture

Edited By Elena Manferdini, Jasmine Benyamin Copyright 2023
144 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

144 Pages
by RIBA Publishing
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Colour is architecture’s sharpest tool in the box. It has indexed everything from the feminine, cosmetic and vulgar to the pure, intrinsic and embodied. Colour has 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 embedded sublime of contemporary building... Read more

Articles

Arch-White

Carolyn Kane

Collective Palettes: On Colour and Identity

Courtney Coffman

Digital Colour: A Semi-Technical Reflection

Galo Canizares

Clouds of Colour

Maya Alam

Prismatic

Marcelyn Gow

Colour is a Place as Well as a Thing

Sam Jacob

When Grass is Not Green: Botanising the Asphalt

Paulette Singley

Profiles

Working with Colour

Louisa Hutton

Colour is a Sufficient Material

fala

Notes on the Velocity of Colours

David Batchelor

Colour as Activism

Guto Requena

Case studies

Colouring the Public Realm

Javier González Rivero

‘What Black is This, You Say?’ A conversation between Amanda Williams and Jasmine Benyamin

Final Word: Uncolour

Mimi Zeiger

Biography

Elena Manferdini is the principal and owner of Atelier Manferdini in Los Angeles and Graduate Programs Chair at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

Jasmine Benyamin is a historian, theorist and critic who serves as guest lecturer at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and was previously Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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