Inessential Colors

Name: Inessential Colors
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SKU: 9780691213569
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Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe

By Basile Baudez

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Inessential Colors offers the first comprehensive exploration of how architects in Europe learned to use colour in their drawings and prints. This study reveals colour as a reflection of the professional tensions in architecture, a field balancing art and science. The book crosses national boundaries to highlight colour’s role in the historical rivalry and exchange shaping European architectural representation and practice.

Featuring numerous previously unpublished drawings, the book challenges the traditional view of architectural drawings as mere illustrations. Instead, it celebrates their status as independent, beautiful objects that laid the foundation for modern architectural visual systems.
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Inessential Colors is ideal for architectural historians, scholars, and students, as well as enthusiasts of art and design history who appreciate detailed research and rich visual documentation.

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

Inessential Colors 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.

Featuring a wealth of previously unpublished drawings, Inessential Colors challenges the long-standing misreading of architectural drawings as illustrations rather than representations.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

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Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, this meticulously researched and richly illustrated work appeals primarily to scholars but offers valuable insights for anyone interested in architectural history. Critics praise it as an essential, fascinating study that deeply examines the conventions and nature of architectural drawing, brilliantly opening a historical perspective on manual representation before the digital age. The extensive colour illustrations and archival materials enable readers to engage closely with the evidence and interpretations presented.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780691213569

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 December 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Princeton University Press

Illustration: 176 color illus.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 292.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

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Arts & Culture Basile Baudez European History History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

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, 17651837.