Colour in Architecture takes many forms and can be expressed or used in wildly different ways.

As you may know - I am not a fan of stark whites. Whilst the colour white has its uses and place in architecture, I strongly object to its use as a ‘given’, or a default colour.

Where have all the colours gone?

National Carillon as Memorial for Lost Temperate Grasslands

In architecture, colour is often thought of as dangerous, because of its capacity to destroy the perception of form. It’s thought of as trivial, because of its association with decoration, with the primitive, and with the feminine.
 Colour is political.

I love the Australian Standards colour palette (AS2700-2011). It’s partially because the colour names represent place-based things: Waratah Red, Wattle Yellow, Koala Grey, Blue Gum, Wombat and Bondi Blue, to mention just a few.