Ecological motivation of color in urban coloristics

Abstract

The article analyses the key ideas and basic concepts of ecological theories of urban coloristics, the authors of which believe that the color identity of a city should be the result of an evolutionary process and be formed on the basis of local shades, which are characteristic of individual settlements and conditioned by geography and climate, natural environment and lighting conditions. The article reviews the stages and principles of the methodology of chromatic analysis of place proposed by J. Brino and J.-Ph. Lenclos. It also discusses the links between ecological theories of color in urban environment design and ecological theories formed in linguistics, psychology and cognitive sciences.

Keywords

• color
• urban environment
• coloristics
• architecture
• urban planning
• design