Le Corbusier : polychromie architecturale : Farbenklaviaturen von 1931 und 1959 = Color keyboards from 1931 and 1959 = Les claviers de couleurs de 1931 et de 1959 / Arthur Rüegg (ed.) ; translations: German into English: Bruce Almberg, Katja Steiner, Steven Lindberg, Christine Schoffler and Peter Blakeney ; German into French: Catherine Courtiau, Marco Braun, Johanna Krivanec ; French into German: Klaus Rupprecht ; French into English: Rebecca Lyon and Barry Stanton.
Contributor(s): Rüegg, Arthur [editor.]
| Almberg, Bruce [translator.] | Steiner, Katja [translator.] | Lindberg, Steven [translator] | Schöffler, Christine [translator] | Courtiau, Catherine [translator] | Krafft-Krivanec, Johanna [translator] | Rupprecht, Klaus [translator].
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BookPublisher: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Third, revised edition.Description: 3 volumes (189 pages, 32 unnumbered pages, 126 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm + 4 cards.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783035606614; 3035606617 .Subject(s): Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation | Color in architectureDDC classification: 720.92 LeC | Item type | Current library | Call number | Vol info | Status | Barcode | |
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| Reference | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Reference | 720.92 LeC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | vol. 1 | Not for loan | 00181036 | |
| Reference | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Reference | 720.92 LeC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Vol. 2 | Not for loan | 00181038 | |
| Reference | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Reference | 720.9e LeC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Vol. 3 | Not for loan | 00181040 |
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Le Corbusier designed two color collections for the Salubra wallpaper company: the "Clavier de couleurs" of 1931, with 43 colors, and the 1959 collection, with 20. Not content with the mere color selection, drawn from his experience as an architect and painter, he also organized the tones on 12 sample cards in such a manner that, by using a slider, three or five colors could be varyingly isolated or combined. Each card contained a different color scheme meant, when applied, to create a particular spatial effect. This would become not only a useful tool but also a kind of testament of the purist color theory, an essential groundwork and a valuable instrument for all those who deal with color in theory or practice.
In the first volume, Arthur Rüegg, the renowned Le Corbusier expert, explores the significance of the Salubra collections for the history of modern architecture, and in the epilogue to this third edition, presents the specialist research conclusions from the last twenty years. The second volume contains 13 color plates with the 63 colors, printed using the screen printing method and glued by hand as well as 4 separate sliders in pocket. Volume three consists of 63 full page color sample sheets, also printed using the screen printing method.
Valuable tool for architects, interior designers, and graphic designers With the original mineral pigments used by Le Corbusier A standard reference for today's design practice Language: English, German, French
Slightly revised new edition.
Includes bibliographical references.
Le Corbusier designed two color collections for the Salubra wallpaper company: the Clavier de couleurs; of 1931, with 43 colors, and the 1959 collection, with 20. Not content with the mere color selection, drawn from his experience as an architect and painter, he also organized the tones on 12 sample cards in such a manner that, by using a slider, three or five colors could be varyingly isolated or combined. Each card contained a different color scheme meant, when applied, to create a particular spatial effect. This would become not only a useful tool but also a kind of testament of the purist color theory, an essential groundwork and a valuable instrument for all those who deal with color in theory or practice.00In the first volume, Arthur Rüegg, the renowned Le Corbusier expert, explores the significance of the Salubra collections for the history of modern architecture, and in the epilogue to this third edition, presents the specialist research conclusions from the last twenty years. The second volume contains 13 color plates with the 63 colors, printed using the screen printing method and glued by hand as well as 4 separate sliders in pocket. Volume three consists of 63 full page color sample sheets, also printed using the screen printing method. 00The enlarged postscript of this 3rd edition covers the developments of the last 10 years.
Vol. 1. Farbenklaviaturen von 1931 und 1959 = Color keyboards from 1931 and 1959 = Les claviers de couleurs de 1931 et de 1959 -- v. 2. Farbenklaviaturen = Color keyboards = Claviers de couleurs -- v. 3. Farbmuster = Color swatches = Echantillons de couleurs.
Parallel texts in German, English, and French.
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Arthur Rüegg is a Professor emeritus at the ETH Zurich and a Le Corbusier expert.