04 / Colour as structure
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Material logic / 1966—68

Colour carries the room

A wall can be the plan, the light, and the pause.

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Colour is the first wall

Rosa mexicano sets the room’s temperature before furniture arrives.

Light turns mass into movement

A high plane catches the sun, then releases a long shadow across the axis.

Thresholds stay deliberately quiet

A narrow aperture gives the eye one exact place to leave the plane.

The ground keeps the scale human

Ochre earth, green pasture, and held water make the monumental feel lived-in.

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