REQUIRING BUILDINGS TO BE WHITE.

REQUIRING BUILDINGS TO BE WHITE. David Watkin’s review describes a period when there were important people claiming that all buildings should be white. Surprisingly, that period is the last hundred years. The story begins with Adolf Loos in 1908 “calling for everything to be white”. In the late 1930’s, the prime minister of Greece decreed that all buildings should be white. Fishing villages which had been yellow, red, blue, green, and lilac became white. And “Le Corbusier discussed whether by law all buildings should be white, the coulour of purism and modernity.”