Polychromatic colour harmony mixing based on the logic of the golden ratio, the Fibonacci number line

Text and figures: Gábor Tari

This paper is a report on several decades of teaching experience gained at various universities, accompanied with the presentation of guiding illustrative materials and the best students’ works produced meanwhile, as well as the lecturer’s own realized works in the fields of architectural design and color theory.

Approaches:
• Changes in the formal language of modern architecture from basic geometric forms to free-form organic and geometric forms.
• The basic components of visual language — form contrasts, facture and texture contrasts, architectural colour theory.
• Compositional effects factors and operations in student model tasks.
• Polychromatic colour harmony exercises based on the logic of the golden ratio in architectural colour to form basies for architectural and environmental design.
• The compositional colour and design principles taught in the lecturer’s own work (conceptual re-colouring of prefab housing estates).