Sto distribution centre in Hamburg, Germany. Designed by Michael Wilford & Associates, 1994-1995. Photographed by Richard Bryant, image courtesy of Sto Working with color is, above all, challenging.

Colors have played an essential role in the history of modern architecture - from Le Corbusier's theory of polychromy to the aesthetic conceptions of the Bauhaus. However, we find ourselves at the ...

The science and art of color theory is divided by a wheel or chart into three main categories: primary, secondary and tertiary. Color is something we perceive through a combination of wavelengths ...

In architecture, color selection is important in every part of the globe, but perhaps no place more so than in Latin America. I grew up in a Texan neighborhood of grays, browns, and beiges. It was a ...

Ozenfant and the genealogy of architectural color -- Education of the eye : Ozenfant, Signac and purple shadows -- Purism and the 'divorce of painting and architecture' -- 'Colour solidity' : the ...

It’s official! The neutral reign is ending—color now rules the room. Over the past few years we’ve seen it reenter the home through green kitchens, rich dark millwork, and spaces drenched in a single ...