书名：Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe / 非本质色彩：近代早期欧洲纸上建筑
定价：525.0
ISBN：9780691213569
作者：Basile Baudez
版次：1
出版时间：2021-12

内容提要：

书名：Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe / 非必要之色：近代早期欧洲的纸上建筑
作者：Basile Baudez
出版社：Princeton University Press，2021年
装帧：精装，288页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 21.6*26.0 cm
ISBN：978-0-6912-1356-9

简介

这是首部系统论述欧洲建筑师如何学会通过色彩进行交流的著作。意大利文艺复兴时期的建筑图纸基本无色，但从十七世纪到十九世纪，建筑表现中的多色运用逐渐增长并繁荣。作者Basile Baudez指出，色彩之所以出现在纸上，是因为建筑师借鉴了画家的模仿工具、制图师的天然符号、军事工程师的惯例以及画家的情感目标，以尝试与更广泛的公众交流。

《非必要之色》追溯了欧洲建筑图纸和版画中色彩的运用，揭示这一现象如何反映了建筑这一同时兼具艺术与科学的新兴职业实践中的专业焦虑。跨越国界，本书将色彩视为欧洲建筑表现与实践传统之间长期竞争与交流历史中的关键角色。书中还指出色彩在建筑图纸中承担了三种功能：模仿建筑材料、建立可跨越长距离传播的简洁表现惯例，以及吸引公众（包括游客）。

本书配有大量此前未发表的档案图纸，挑战了长久以来将建筑图纸视为插图而非表现作品的误读，指向其作为独立作品的固有品质——正是这些作品的美学价值为今天建筑师使用的视觉系统铺平了道路。

本书荣获英国建筑史学会颁发的Alice Davis Hitchcock奖章。

The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned to communicate through color. Architectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth, polychromy in architectural representation grew and flourished. Basile Baudez argues that colors appeared on paper when architects adapted the pictorial tools of imitation, cartographers' natural signs, military engineers' conventions, and, finally, painters' affective goals in an 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. The history reveals that color came to have three functions: to imitate architectural materials, to establish concise representational conventions that could span large geographic distances, and to seduce the public.

Featuring a wealth of previously unpublished drawings, Inessential Colors challenges the long-standing misreading of architectural drawings as illustrations rather than representations, pointing instead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.

Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.