Colours by Rem Koolhaas

Colour alters perception

"The nature of colour should change - no longer just a thin layer of change, but something that genuinely alters perception" and this stipulation of Rem Koolhaas is echoed by the world famous architects and designers Alessandro Mendini and Norman Foster.

Applications of colours

In this volume, they present between them a total of 90 colours - each covering half a page - accompanied by comments on the background, the significance and the applications of the colours. The studies of colours from each office form the basis of this book, and were previously only available in extravagant individual editions.

Comprehensive and consistent presentation

With this comprehensive and consistent presentation of the varying approaches to colour, we have a compendium which shows the wide use of colour in today's technologically advanced architecture with its modern, post-modern and deconstructive orientation.
The range of examples of the colours in practice includes load-bearing structures, facades, interior designs, furnishing and the entire spectrum of product design.

Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas was born in Rotterdam in 1944. In 1975 he founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), which has become one of today's most renowned and radical architecture firms. Koolhaas is the winner of several international awards, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2000.
Rem Koolhaas is the author of "Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Mahattan" and "S,M,L,XL". As a professor of architecture and urban design at Harvard University, Rem Koolhaas has been an instrumental director of "Project on the City", an ongoing analysis of contemporary urban landscapes, part of which was published in the recent book "Mutations".

Colours by Rem Koolhaas

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 3764365692

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