Le Corbusier’s Timeless Palette: Few architects have influenced architectural colour theory as profoundly as Le Corbusier. Far from embracing the “white walls” myth of modernism, Le Corbusier crafted a Polychromie Architecturale – two curated colour palettes (from 1931 and 1959) comprising 63 nuanced shades – to integrate colour as a fundamental architectural tool. Developed in collaboration with the Swiss wallpaper firm Salubra, these palettes (often called the Salubra “colo