COLOUR IN BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Light, Exposure and Colour in Architecture and its Effects on Spirits of Space Users in a
Psychological View.
Effects of Colours on Cinema, Visual Arts, Music, Art Movements, Architecture, Food,
Fashion, Human Perception etc.
AIM:
How is colour perceived impulsively in Indian Context?
How the perception of things change by adding colours?
OBJECTIVE:
 Define Colour Theories used.
 Color Vocabulary: Hue, Value, Tint, Shade, Tone, Chrome.
 Color Harmony: Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Triad, Polychromatic.
INFLUENCES
 On Architecture through Architects like:
Antoni Gaudi Luis Barragan
Michael Graves Theo Van Does burg
Peter Cook Richard Rogers
Ricardo Bo fill Renzo Piano
Le Corbusier Gerrit Rietveld
Jean Nouvel Steven Holl

 On Art Movements through Artists like:

Italian Renaissance Art - Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael
Baroque - Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Bernini
Realism- Gustav Courbet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet
Impressionism - Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt
Post Impressionism- Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin
Cubism- Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris
Surrealism- Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, René Magritte
 Cinema
 Fashion
 Photography
RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
• How is architecture affected by colour? Does it want to show the emotion behind it?
• How is a movie dependant on Colour Pallete?
• Does colour help built health?
• How is Colour culturally used?
BOOKS
Interaction of Colour- Josef Albers
The elements of Colour – Johannes Itten
The secret lives of Colour – Kassia Clair
The Art of Colour – Johannes Itten
Secret Language of colour – Joann Eckstrot
Color Psychology – Angela Wright
BRIEF:
Color is an integral part of our perception of the environment. The human eye will perceive
motion, then brightness, then color and form. Architecture Design mostly concerns itself with
just form. But, actually light, form and color are three equal tools that help in shaping the
perception of Architecture.
The study of color in relation to the three dimensional perception is founded on the
principles of color reference systems, color harmonies and contrasts, light, vision, perception,
human color reactions, gestalt principles, and perception of spatial depth.
It is a matter of debate, to say the least.