Sessional lecturer Rodney LaTourelle and partner Louise Witthöft — of the firm Witthöft & LaTourelle — were recently interviewed by Detail Magazine about the application of colour to architectural spaces.

“Colour interacts with the material; it interacts with the body of a material in space. Colour can expand the space, it can structure or differentiate the space,” LaTourelle told Detail. 

LaTourelle is an artist, architect, and writer. He recently launched a solo exhibition The Stepped Form last September at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina. The installation was part of his spring 2014 artist-in-residency at the Alberta College of Art & Design's Illingworth Kerr Gallery.

From the MacKenzie Art Gallery website:

"LaTourelle explores the ways in which institutional structures are constructive of social relationships and meaning.  This encompasses the often subtle—at times nearly invisible—means by which the built environment influences the ways we interact with each other, and the world around us. In the wake of heightened global security concerns, the built environment is increasingly controlled and controlling—utilizing means of design in lieu of overt forms such as policing—and public space is subsumed by private space or new forms of “private-public” space."

The exhibit will be on display until April 24, 2016. For more information, visit The Mackenzie Art Gallery's website.