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