Architectural Research Quarterly



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The ‘architecture of colour-form’: Adrian Stokes and Venice


Stephen Kite a1
a1 School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, The Quadrangle, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK, s.e.kite@ncl.ac.uk

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Adrian Stokes (1902–72) — aesthete, critic, painter and poet — is linked to John Ruskin and Walter Pater as one of the greatest aesthetic thinkers in this English empirical tradition. This paper explores his insights on the reciprocity of colour and form in relation to architecture.