Color plays an important role in architecture as it influences our mood and affects how we view certain things. Today it influences the market and is important in marketing items and how we view certain web sites. While in architecture color is used to emphasize the character of the building, to accentuate its form and material and to elucidate its divisions.
Man discovered how to make the materials more durable than they were from nature’s hand, and new colors begun to appear: red yellow bricks, deep black wood. Since the human imagination is very slow to grasp new possibilities when we choose a color that is not determined by material our choice falls to some other materials that we are familiar to.
Color is also regarded as a symbol. In Peking bright colors were reserved for palaces, temples and other ritual buildings. Continuing with rules and directives for the employment of color to hide blemishes and defects such as German Theorist description who explains that small rooms should be paired with pale colors and cold rooms with warm tones, ivory, cream or peach.
Color as all other architectural elements can not be strictly defined. When man has reached the stage where he uses color not only to preserve building materials and emphasize structure and textural effects, but to make a great architectural composition more clear, to articulate inter-relations between a series of rooms, then a new great field opens before them.
It often happens that when an attractive color, seen on the walls of a particular room, is copied in another room it loses its attraction in the new surroundings. That means that the same color in the same surface may look very different when seen together with different colors. Warm and cold colors are important in our lives and they change with the daylight also. This is more evident in the towns with a water atmosphere.
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