Colour and Light: Spatial Experience

Colour and Light: Spatial Experience describes the coherent interaction of light and colour in the spatial context. It explains the nature of light to colour specialists, and the nature of colour to light specialists, simultaneously conveying an understanding that light and colour must be thought of together. In addition, it brings out the apparent contradictions between the practically based knowledge of craftsmen, engineers and designers, and the theoretically based knowledge of academics in various disciplines.

Including background context, facts and possible approaches, the book provides a basic understanding of light and colour, and their significance for humans in the spatial context.

Karin Fridell Anter is an architect SAR/MSA, PhD and reader in architecture, specialised in colour. She has written and edited several books and numerous scientific and popular articles dealing with colour and architecture. In 2010-2011 she headed the research project SYN-TES which lay the foundations for this book. She is active as a researcher, lecturer, writer, and colour consultant in the consulting company Explicator AB, www.explicator.se.

Ulf Klarén is a researcher, writer and lecturer on perception, colour and light. Until his retirement in 2011 he was senior lecturer and head of The Perception Studio at Konstfack - University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Ulf Klarén’s publications include a textbook on colour and several scientific reports and contributions to anthologies. He has been a guest teacher at Aalto University - School of Arts, Design, and Architecture in Helsinki and an invited lecturer in several Scandinavian universities and collegesIn 2010 - 2011 he was assistant project leader of the research project SYN-TES which lay the foundations for this book. Ulf Klarén is furthermore a practicing illustrator.