Inquiry

• Analysis and Synthesis (Spot the Difference)

  Will Holder

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    Will Holder for the Architectural Association, 2007

  “In Kandinsky’s class we were given a real vacation assignment, but it isn’t bad. A square, 30 cm by 30 cm, is to be divided up into 5 by 10 cm rectangles. The following colours are to be used: three primary, three secondary and three uncoloured (black, white, grey). The arrangement of the coloured rectangles is entirely up to you as long as they are horizontal and vertical, not diagonal. It’s also up to you how often you use each colour, so long as every colour is used at least once. The task is as follows:

  1. Emphasise the centre
  2. Balance top and bottom

  In the final session he did not say much new, just something about the tensions in the square; I myself did not understand it completely, and I think it’s not that important anyway…"

  Unidentified Bauhaus student
  (possibly Hans Thiemann)

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    ‘Colour keyboard’ for the Salubra wallpaper company, from Le Corbusier’s Polychromie Architecturale, Birkhäuser, 1997

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    Spread from Catalogue no. 8

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    Appendix Appendix by Ryan Gander and Stuart Bailey, JRP Ringier/Christoph Keller Editions, 2007, pp. 24–25