Inessential Colors : Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe.
"Today, architectural plans and drawings are always signposted with colors: pink for poché, or exterior walls, yellow for certain interior elements, and blue for details and ornament. How and why did this practice begin? The craft of architectural drawing-plans, sections, and details-was origi...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2021.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1qdqzsb |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Architectures in black and white
- Imitative colors
- Conventional colors
- Affective colors
- The draftsman's tools
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Image credits.