ABSTRACT
The male incapacity with colour must derive from their gender stereo type. Boys stop playing with crayons around the age of five. Girls never stop playing with clothes, make-up, hair and then interiors. Women have an intuitive grasp of colour. It is nothing but a skill born of experience. Practice makes perfect. The only men who are capable are those who use colour in their work – such as graphic artists. Colour and pattern serve to de-materialize a solid, predictable and orderly architecture. But this works both ways. It frees from the prison of a merely urban domesticity. But, by effecting this ‘escape’, it also allows the physical body of the urban lifespace to remain as predictably domestic as it has been for nine millennia. Every individual is the creature of his culture. Reality, while it should never exclude matters of a general nature, matters of concern to anyone, must always be of a time and place.
