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Architects' colour terminology: Is there order?
Author(s) -
O'Connor M.,
Whitfield T. W. A.,
Wiltshire T. J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
color research and application
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1520-6378
pISSN - 0361-2317
DOI - 10.1002/col.5080140208
Subject(s) - terminology , point (geometry) , natural (archaeology) , focus (optics) , order (exchange) , computer science , epistemology , artificial intelligence , linguistics , mathematics , history , philosophy , archaeology , physics , geometry , finance , optics , economics
Abstract In this article we argue that colour order systems represent the conceptualisations of experts and that little attention has been given to how nonexperts in color theory and terminology conceive of colour. Following previous work with British architects 1,2 , our attention was directed toward this group as a major example of users of colour who are, from the point of view of theoreticians, nonexperts. Given the difficulties of revealing conceptual structures, architects' natural terminology provided the focus of the study. Two tasks were administered: the first sought to identify the main colour terms architects used, while the second sought to group these terms under meaningful descriptors. The main questions of interest concerned the identity of such descriptors, their conceptual organisation, and the correspondence between architects' descriptors/terms and those used in colour‐order systems.