Color - Communication in Architectural Space / / Gerhard Meerwein, Bettina Rodeck, Frank H. Mahnke.

Colors are an element of both the natural and the man-made environments. They convey messages of all kinds and perform a wide variety of functions, informing, organizing, warning. But they also serve an aesthetic purpose, affecting the statement, effect, and acceptance of objects and spaces. While p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (152 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 HUMANS – THE FOCUS OF DESIGN
  • 2 THE SENSES AS INSTRUMENTS OF COMMUNICATION
  • 3 COLOR – AN ENVIRONMENTAL ELEMENT
  • 4 HUMANS AND COLOR
  • 5 THE DESIGN ESSENTIALS OF COLOR
  • 6 LIGHT AND COLOR
  • 7 MATERIAL AND COLOR
  • 8 ARCHITECTURAL ASPECTS OF SPACE
  • 9 COMMUNICATION: PEOPLE – COLOR – SPACE
  • 10 THE PRACTICE OF COLOR DESIGN
  • 11 FIELDS OF DESIGN
  • CONCLUSION
  • Backmatter