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Color & Color Theory: Architecture

This guide is designed to familiarize students with resources on color, including publications on color theory, the psychology of color, and practical applications of color in design.

Books on Theoretical & Practical Approaches

Architectural Color by Tom Porter
Call Number: NA 2795 .P67 1982
Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette by Fiona McLachlan
Call Number: NA2795 .M45 2012
Architecture and Color by Waldron Faulkner
Call Number: NA 2795 .F38
Color for Interior Architecture by Mary C. Miller
Call Number: QC 495 .M47 1997
Color in Architecture by Ralph Linton
Call Number: NA2795 .L55 1999
Color in Public Spaces by Kenneth E. Foote
Call Number: NA 2795 .F66 1983
Color in Three-Dimensional Design by Jeanne Kopacz
Call Number: NK1548 .K66 2003
Colors by Oscar Riera Ojeda; James McCown; Paul Warchol (Photographer)
Call Number: NA2795 .M43 2004
Color Spaces by Frederike Tebbe
Call Number: NA2795 .T43 2009
The Colour, Light and Contrast Manual by Keith Bright; Geoffrey M. W. Cook
Call Number: NA2795 .B75 2010
Colourscape by Michael Lancaster
Call Number: NA 2795 .L28 1996
Painting Historic Exteriors: Colors, Application, and Regulation by Maycock, Susan E
Call Number: ND1411 .M24 1998
The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
Call Number: NA 2550 .R75 1989

Catalogs of Color and Architectural Projects

Color and Space in Architecture and Interior Design: Commercial, Corporate, Dining, Educational, Public, Residential, Recreational
Call Number: NA2795 .C635 2013
Colors=Colours
Call Number: NA 2795 .C64 2003
The Colours Of ... by Erik Mattie
Call Number: NA2795 .C65 2015
Contemporary Color Design by DAAB Media Staff (Created by)
Call Number: NA2795 .C66 2007
Designing with Black by Stephen Crafti
Call Number: NA2795 .C73 2013

Special Editions of Journals

Journal Articles

Byron Mikellides, “The Effect of Colour in the Built Environment - the Scientific Evidence."
Blueprint (London, England), no. 344 (January 2016): 96-104.
Darlene A. Brady and Mark English, “Color.”
Inland Architect 37, no. 2 (March 1993): 42-45.
Michael Lancaster, “Colour, Buildings, and the Landscape.”
Landscape Design no. 288: 46-49.
Sylvia Lavin, “What Color is it Now?”
Perspecta 35, (2004): 98-111.
Xavier Bordils, “El Color de la arquitectura = The Color of Architecture.”
Via Arquitectura 13, (2003): 18-23.

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