The architecture of light : recent approaches to designing with natural light / Mary Ann Steane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steane, Mary Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Light in architecture.

Lighting, Architectural and decorative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Recent approaches to designing with natural light

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reviewing the use of natural light by architects in the era of electricity, this book aims to show that natural light not only remains a potential source of order in architecture, but that natural lighting strategies impose a usefully creative discipline on design.Considering an approach to environmental context that sees light as a critical aspect of place, this book explores current attitudes to natural light by offering a series of in-depth studies of recent projects and the particular lighting issues they have addressed. It gives a more nuanced appraisal of these lighting strateg

Contents:

Front Cover; The Architecture of Light; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustration credits; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Daylighting in the era of electricity; 1. Speaking of light, speaking with light: Le Corbusier's 'carnets de recherche patiente', Une Petite Maison and La Chapelle de Ronchamp; 2. Desert tent: Light and geometry in the church of the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Las Condes, Santiago de Chile; 3. Deciding the colouring of things: Scarpa's Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice

4. Reading light at Seinajoki, Finland, and Viana do Castelo, Portugal: Aalto's and Siza's conspicuous conservation of daylight5. Enlightening conversation: The Music Room and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile; 6. Seeing the light: The Poole House, Lake Weyba, Queensland James Bichard, ed. Mary Ann Steane; 7. O'Donnell and Tuomey's lessons in the history and geography of light: The RanelaghMulti-Denominational School, Dublin, 1998; 8. Inverse light? The vulnerable openings of Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Berlin

9.New light for old across London: Recent interventions at the Carmelite Priory, Kensington, by Niall McLaughlin, and at 1A John Campbell Road, Hackney, by Lisa Shell10. The electricity of daylight? Herzog and De Meuron's excavation of dusk at London's Bankside Power Station, 1998-2000; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-84280-7

1-135-65588-X

0-203-71550-0

9780203715505

OCLC:

821175142