Professor Fiona McLachlan, Personal Chair in Architectural Practice, presents her inaugural lecture entitled "Practice, Practice, Practise: Illustrated in Colour".

This lecture will focus on two recent research projects on colour in architectural design, both of which were stimulated and informed by Professor McLachlan's own architectural practice and began with an intuitive process of observation, experimentation and an experiential methodology.

Whether inherent in material or applied, colour has the capability to be used as an instrument to tune and transform architectural space. Yet it is rarely discussed in architectural education and in architectural practice, colour often involves arbitrary decisions late in the design process. Through these examples, concepts of architectural design as a synthetic and material practice will be considered.

Recorded on 17 December 2013 at the University of Edinburgh's Business School.