Dimensional Color, 2nd Edition

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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.

Praise for the 1st Edition

'Landmark research in relating color and form.'
—Timothy B. McDonald, Architecture

'One of Josef Albers’s star pupils, Lois Swirnoff takes color far beyond its function as an artistic tool. By exploring its unique role in the myriad environments in which everyday experience occurs, and by examining aspects of color in both the manmade and natural worlds, she not only stretches our knowledge but also enlarges our perceptions in a significant and lasting way.'
—Nicholas Fox Weber, executive director, The Josef Albers Foundation

“Landmark research in relating color and form.”
—Architecture

“An invaluable tool for the teaching and practice of color in architecture and design.”
—From House to Home

“[O]ne of the very few books that examines the relationship of color to three-dimensional form. . . . [T]his book fills a very real need for systematic investigations of color and perception in the planning and development of spaces and places.”
—COLOR Research and Application

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.

ISBN: 0-393-73102-2
August, 2003
192 pages; 230 color, 58 b&w illustrations
Paperback