In nature, form and color are not separate, and it is to nature that we need to look when planning and designing our built environments. Use colored pencils. With color you accentuate, you classify, you disentangle. With black you get stuck in the mud and you are lost. Color will come to your rescue.
Color is the means by which form initially reaches the human eye.
Color and form work best together, and color should never be an afterthought or mere decoration, but an integral part of the design process. Color, used intelligently in the built environment, enhances form and space in ways otherwise not possible. There are some misconceptions that have influenced philosophies of design away from the use color and toward the glorification of form. The bias toward achromatic architecture has likely come about through at least two major influences. One is the misconception that the Greek classical style of architecture was not colored or painted.