Dimensional Color / Edition 2

by Lois Swirnoff

Overview

To the basic grammar of color and form presented in the first edition of Dimensional Color, Lois Swirnoff adds a chapter on color structure and expands one on color and light.

Exploring the interaction between light, color, and surfaces, the book provides an invaluable tool for the teaching and practice of color in architecture and design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393731026
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/17/2003
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	983,053
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Lois Swirnoff is Feltman Chair at the Cooper Union Art School in New York. Painter, photographer, and visual logician, she has exhibited her work internationally, and has taught at Harvard University, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Skidmore and Wellesley Colleges.

Table of Contents

	Preface to the Second Edition	ix
	Foreword	x
	Preface to the First Edition	xiii
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	Architecture and the Significance of the Surface	5
	The Work of Sussman/Prejza & Company	15
Chapter 2	Dimensional Color: Theoretical Background	17
	A Theory of Form	17
	The Paradox of Color	22
	Color Constancy	23
	Physiological Optics	25
	Color Systems	27
	Dimensional Color	29
Chapter 3	Color-Space and Time	35
	The Experiments: The Window Problem	36
	Single Colors	37
	Two Colors	39
	Sequences of Perceptual Mixtures	41
	Color Stereopsis: A Spatial Interaction	46
	Complementary Hues and the Visual Deletion of Boundaries	49
	Space-Frame Experiments	50
Experiment 1	Red/Blue	50
Experiment 2	Figure/Ground	51
Experiment 3	Size and Placement	52
Experiment 4	Size/Color	53
Experiment 5	Volume/Void	53
	Aspen: A Large-Scale Illusion	54
Chapter 4	The Geometry of Brightness and the Perception of Form	59
	Constellation of Cubes: 90 Degree Angles Repeated	64
	The Relativity of Form to Color	66
	Free Study in Form and Color	67
	Interior Dimensions Perceived	68
Chapter 5	Configuration, Pattern, and Dimension	69
Chapter 6	Chiaro e Scuro Inverted	79
	The Pyramid Problem: A Visual Ratio	81
Chapter 7	Color and Visual Organization	87
	Gestalt Principles of Form Affected by Color	87
	The Multiple: A Creative Game	91
	The Multiple: Devising a System	94
	The Multiple as Module: Toward the Design of Buildings' Surfaces	95
	Modular Patterns: Walls	97
	Modular Pattern as Repeat	98
	The Module as Unit in Film Animation	99
	Pattern-Making: From Sequence to Consequence	100
	Unit to Module to Field	101
	Patterns as Projections in Space	104
	Color and Symmetry, with A.L. Loeb	108
	Fourfold Symmetry Adapted	109
	Three-Dimensional Symmetry	110
	Pattern and Additive Mixture	112
Chapter 8	Color and Light	115
	Modules for Reflected Color	119
	A Scale of Shadows	120
	One, Two, and Many	121
	Color by Reflection: Projected Light	122
	Additive Color as Virtual Light	124
	Richard Anuszkiewicz/Paintings	124
	Julian Stanczak/Paintings	126
Chapter 9	Color Structure	129
	The Work of Robert Slutzky	129
	To Infinity: Lois Swirnoff	130
	Facture: Fiber Structure	132
	Modular Assemblage	132
Chapter 10	Color and Form: Conform or Transform?	135
Chapter 11	Visual Education	145
	Conclusion	149
	Notes	151
	Bibliography	153
	Credits	155
	Index	157

Editorial Reviews

"An invaluable tool for the teaching and practice of color in architecture and design."

From House to Home

"Landmark research in relating color and form."

Architecture

"[O]ne of the very few books that examines the relationship of color to three-dimensional form…[F]ills a very real need..."

COLOR Research and Application - Barbara E. Martinson

Published in hardcover by Birkhauser Boston in 1986. The author is a painter, photographer, and visual logician on the faculty of the design department at UCLA. Her aim here (from the preface) is to "...understand complex interactions sufficiently to make them useful to the designer, and to provide a rational basis for the use of color in architecture and the environment." Nicely produced and profusely illustrated in color. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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