Color, as a vehicle for effect, has quite another significance or capacity in the mind of the painter than it has, for instance, in the estimation of the textile designer. With the painter, it is ...

In attempting to establish the basis for technique in architectural polychromy it is necessary first to recognize the effect-value of a physical property of color known as its "radiant energy." The ...

LOS ANGELES — The dwellings are a little off-kilter, the beams sagging, the symmetry imprecise. Artist Sylvia Fragoso has created a number of colorful, glazed ceramic structures — skeletal frames of ...

Some photographers specialize in wildlife imagery or family portraiture. Some can capture a sports highlight from the sidelines like they were in the middle of a huddle, while others specialize in ...

The title of the Preservation Resource Center's new book, "Painting the Town," refers not only to painting buildings but also symbolizes the vibrant and diverse history of New Orleans' architecture, ...

What comes to mind when you think of Brazilian architecture? The strong forms of Oscar Niemeyer? Neutral-toned works of brutalism? Cobogós? In spite of the fact that colors are present in Brazil's ...

Known internationally as the world’s foremost voice on all things color, Pantone’s Color of the Year program has been predicting and even directing color trends for 25 years – reflecting the cultural ...

Chants of “Dragon dragon dragon! Oi oi oi!” filled the air and throngs of people flooded campus streets before spring break, as a dragon, created by first-year architecture students in Cornell’s ...