The picturesque facades of the houses create a multicolored mosaic that extends in the cobbled streets. The combination of colors and perception when seeing them sharing the same wall, teaches us how essential the color for the architecture of this city is.
A geometric brick game decorates the facade of the Oaxaca Textile Museum.EVAN CAN / UNSPLASH.
Terracotta
The terracotta color accentuates to the most hidden corners of Oaxaca. Waste of brick walls, earth tiles, and dyed woodThey hint the predominance of this color. Throughout the city we see how this color takes distant tones, varying between a light brown color, to a more saturated toasted orange.
The Terracotta is seen in foodas in the colored mole, bathing the rest of the plate in this reddish color. On another occasion, we see a facade where the terracotta predominates the design, in the inner courtyard of the Oaxaca Textile Museum. A brick set in triangular shapes tupen the entire wall, painting the adjacent spaces when they reflect the sunlight.
The combination of colors in architectural elements in houses create a visual harmony.T bortolus / undla.
Magenta
When sitting at restaurants with interior courtyards, or in one of the many ROOFTOPS With which the city counts, we have another color point of view. From this perspective we can see the trees drinks, and therefore, the magenta touches offered by the lass bugambilias and chopped paper About the alleys.