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William W. Braham
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48033010
Color is usually a secondary aspect of architecture, but through the 19th and early 20th centuries it became an explicit issue of debate, inspired by the experiments of scientists and fueled by the close interaction among the artistic and architectural avant-gardes. Through that period, discussions about color were integral to the formation of a modern architecture, reaching a point of crisis and conclusion in the (mostly) white walls of the 1920s and 1930s. By the post-war years, architects moved onto other topics and color became a largely secondary topic once again. This article traces the particular historical boundaries of that condition of modern color, using articles by Amedee Ozenfant to structure the inquiry.