Charles Alexander Duncan Booker
About
Alex Booker is a professor and leader of the form research group at the department of architecture and technology
Areas of special expertise
- Form and form grammar
- Gestalt principles of visual organization and composition
- Visual communication
- Colour and communication
- Visual art
- Art in public space and architecture.
Background
Trained in the UK as a fine artist, Alex Booker has exhibited widely in Europe and Scandinavia as well as completing a number of major public commissions. From 1986 to 1992 he was associate professor in painting at Art Academy in Trondheim and from 1995 professor at the department for architectural design form and colour where he has responsibility for teaching two and three dimensional form grammar, colour and visual communication for both product design and architecture students. In addition to his artistic practice he has been director of and curator at Trondheim’s center for contemporary art and a member of the board of directors for Trondheim’s Art Museum.
Alex Booker is also a founding member of the Light and Colour research group at the faculty.
Current interests/focus
- Modes of hybridism in photography
- Theories of the Dérive, psychogeography and the sense of place and space
- Colour and light in the urban environment
- The nature of the relationship between the physical and contextual space of the museum and the artefact
Publications
2017
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Booker, Charles Alexander;
Angelo, Kine.
(2017)
Architectural colour; a discourse in the popular Norwegian press and social media 2014 to 2016. The greying of Norway. ISBN 978-5-88018-433-0.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2016
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Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2016)
Structure, Colour, Space and Time.
Chapter
2014
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Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2014)
RAW Contained.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Angelo, Kine;
Matusiak, Barbara Szybinska;
Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2014)
Farge i byen Colour in the city.
NTNU Department of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies
NTNU Department of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies
Exhibition catalogue
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Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2014)
Derivé.
KOTE
Article in business/trade/industry journal
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Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2014)
"Byen søker plassene ved kanalen og elva" Kunstprosject med fokus på sentrumsnære byrom i tilknytning elva og kanalen. 15 bilder, fotodokuentasjon.
Visual Arts
2004
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Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2004)
Module and pattern in an architectural context; the work of Edith Lundebrekke.
Kunsthåndverk
Academic literature review
Journal publications
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Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2014)
Derivé.
KOTE
Article in business/trade/industry journal
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Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2004)
Module and pattern in an architectural context; the work of Edith Lundebrekke.
Kunsthåndverk
Academic literature review
Artistic productions
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Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2014)
"Byen søker plassene ved kanalen og elva" Kunstprosject med fokus på sentrumsnære byrom i tilknytning elva og kanalen. 15 bilder, fotodokuentasjon.
Visual Arts
Books
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Angelo, Kine;
Matusiak, Barbara Szybinska;
Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2014)
Farge i byen Colour in the city.
NTNU Department of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies
NTNU Department of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies
Exhibition catalogue
Part of book/report
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Booker, Charles Alexander;
Angelo, Kine.
(2017)
Architectural colour; a discourse in the popular Norwegian press and social media 2014 to 2016. The greying of Norway. ISBN 978-5-88018-433-0.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2016)
Structure, Colour, Space and Time.
Chapter
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Booker, Charles Alexander.
(2014)
RAW Contained.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2017
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LectureAngelo, Kine; Booker, Charles Alexander. (2017) Fargeveilederen i Trondheim - Presentasjon på Literaturhuset. Fargeveilederen i Trondheim , Kulturtorget, Trondheim 2017-03-02 - 2017-03-02
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Academic lectureBooker, Charles Alexander; Angelo, Kine. (2017) The impact of the industrial surface colour palette; tradition, ignorance and indifference examined through recent architectural projects in Trondheim. XIII CONFERENZA DEL COLORE , Naples 2017-09-04 - 2017-09-05
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InterviewAngelo, Kine; Booker, Charles Alexander. (2017) Tragisk hvis Trondheim blir grå, hvit og trist. Adressa.no Adressa.no [Journal] 2017-03-02
2016
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LectureBooker, Charles Alexander. (2016) The Autonomy of Colour. Seminaret FARGEROM , Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum 2016-05-14 - 2016-05-14
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LectureBooker, Charles Alexander. (2016) Togetherness i det spektakulæres tidsalder. Oslo Design Fair , Lillestrøm 2016-09-01 -
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Academic lectureAngelo, Kine; Booker, Charles Alexander Duncan. (2016) Colour Perception and Perceived Colour A case study of the perception of the nominal façade colours of Trondheim. AIC 2016 , Santiago 2016-10-18 - 2016-10-21
2015
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Academic lectureAngelo, Kine; Booker, Charles Alexander. (2015) Meeting New Challenges in Colour Tendencies in Norway. Conference Proceedings from AIC 2015 Midterm Meeting: Color and Image. Page 235-240. AIC 2015 Midterm meeting of the International Colour Association (AIC) , Tokyo 2015-05-19 - 2015-05-22
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InterviewAngelo, Kine; Booker, Charles Alexander. (2015) Advarer mot fargeløs samling av campus. Universitetsavisa Universitetsavisa [Internet] 2015-09-25
2014
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LectureBooker, Charles Alexander. (2014) Why colour is important. Colour in the City , Trondheim 2014-09-26 -
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Interview
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InterviewBooker, Charles Alexander. (2014) Husfarge ingen privatrsak. Adressavisa Adressavisa [Journal] 2014-10-07
2011
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Academic lectureBooker, Charles Alexander. (2011) Dampsentralen and Tate, towards a Kunsthall in Trondheim. Project Kunsthall , Trondheim 2011-05-30 -
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Academic lectureBooker, Charles Alexander. (2011) A Melancholic Journey - Circumnavigating the Sublime. Aesthetic Formulations: Nature and Architecture , Trondheim 2011-09-29 - 2011-10-01
2010
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InterviewBooker, Charles Alexander. (2010) Kronikk i Adressavisa av Tore I. Haugen. Addressavisa. Kronikk Addressavisa. Kronikk [Journal] 2010-09-18
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Academic lectureBooker, Charles Alexander. (2010) Tenkning, Teory og Praxis. oppsummering av konferance. Tenkning Teory og Praxis , Trondheim 2010-10-28 - 2010-10-29
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InterviewBooker, Charles Alexander. (2010) 25 år med form og farge. Addressavisa Kultur, side 12 Addressavisa Kultur, side 12 [Journal] 2010-09-03
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Academic lectureBooker, Charles Alexander. (2010) Artwork in Public Space, Transparency, Light and Colour. Lysdagen , Trondheim 2010-10-18 - 2010-10-18