CONTENTS Introduction 1 - 4 Aims and objectives Scope and limitations Methodology Chapter1 Graphical statement 5 - 12 1.1 Visual Processes 1.2 Perception 1.3 Visual perception 1.4 Visual language 1.4.1 Form vocabulary 1.4.2 Space grammar 1.4.3 Phrasing the statement 1.5 Graphical Statement 1.5.1 Visual translation 1.5.2 Designing the statement 1.5.3 Visual editing 1.5.4 Image meaning 1.6 Graphical Perception Chapter 2 Colour Graphics 13 - 30 2.1 Colour and its source 2.2 Colour terminology 2.3 Colour and its emotional effects 2.4 Psychological effects 2.4.1 Warmth and coolness 2.4.2 Heaviness or lightness 2.5 Visual effects of colour application 2.5.1 Advancing or receding colours 2.5.2 Emphasis or legibility 2.5.3 Camouflage 2.5.4 Colour harmony 2.6 Colour Graphics Chapter 3 Interventions and Influences in architecture 31 - 53 3.1 Developments in the early 20th century 3.2 Cubism 3.2.1 Influence of cubism on architecture 3.2.2 Influence of cubism on colour 3.3 Futurism 3.3.1 Influence of futurism on colour and architecture 3.3.2 Influence of futurism on colour 3.4 Constructivism 3.4.1 Influence of constructivism on colour and architecture 3.4.2 Influence of constructivism on colour 3.5 De Stijl movement 3.5.1 Peit Mondrians ideological stand 3.5.2 Gerrit T. Reitvelds ideological stand 3.5.3 Use of colour 3.6 Purism 3.6.1 Influence of constructivism on colour and architecture 3.6.2 Influence of constructivism on colour 3.7 Bauhaus in Germany (1919) Chapter 4 Case Studies 55 - 79 4.1 Aldo Van Eyck 4.2 Karen Bausman 4.3 Rockwell Group 4.4 Steven Hall 4.5 Gerrit Reitveld 4.6 Charles Correa Conclusion Illustration credits Bibliography