Inessential Colors

Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe

By: Basile Baudez

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Hardcover | 1 April 2022

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288 Pages

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29.8 x 24.1 x 2.7

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The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned to communicate through colour.

Architectural draw traces the use of colour in European architectural drawings and prints, revealing how this phenomenon reflected the professional anxieties of an emerging professional practice that was simultaneously art and science. Traversing national borders, the book addresses colour as a key player in the long history of rivalry and exchange between European traditions in architectural representation and practice.e.attempt to communicate with a broad public.

Inessential Colors traces the use of color in European architectural drawings and prints, revealing how this phenomenon reflected the professional anxieties of an emerging professional practice that was simultaneously art and science. Traversing national borders, the book addresses color as a key player in the long history of rivalry and exchange between European traditions in architectural representation and practice.

Featuring a wealth of previously unpublished drawings, Inessential Colors challenges the long-standing misreading of architectural drawings as illustrations rather than representations, pointing instead to their inherent qualities as independent objects whose beauty paved the way for the visual system architects use today.

About the Author

Basile Baudez is assistant professor of architectural history in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. His books include Architecture et tradition academique and A Civic Utopia: Architecture and the City in France, 1765-1837.

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