Architectural Lighting: Designing with Light and Space (Architecture Briefs)

✍ Scribed by Hervé Descottes, Cecilia Ramos

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 144
• Series: Architecture Briefs
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Architectural Lighting, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, provides both a critical approach to and a conceptual framework for understanding the application of lighting in the built environment. The key considerations of lighting design are illuminated through accessible texts and instructional diagrams. Six built projects provide readers with concrete examples of the ways in which these principles are applied. Short essays by architect Steven Holl, artist Sylvain Dubuisson, and landscape architect James Corner explore the role of lighting in defining spatial compositions.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Six Visual Principles of Light
Illuminance
Luminance
Color and Temperature
Height
Density
Direction and Distribution
Analysis
High Line, New York, New York, United States
Newtown Creek Water Pollution Treatment Plant,Brooklyn, New York, United States
Jules Verne, Paris, France
Beige, Tokyo, Japan
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki,Finland
Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota,United States
Essays
A Conversation with Steven Holl
Sensations of Light, Sylvain Dubuisson
Light and Landscape, James Corner
Appendices
Lighting Fixture Layout and Illuminance Calculations
Appendix A: Historical Timeline of Light Sources
Appendix B: Recommended Illuminance Values
Appendix C: Color Temperature vs. Color RenderingIndex of Light Sources
Appendix D: Basic Characteristics of General LightSources
Appendix E: Lighting Symbol Legend
Glossary
Bibliography
Image Credits