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Visual delight in architecture : daylight, vision, and view / Lisa Heschong ; illustrations by Garth von Ahnen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heschong, Lisa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Daylighting.
- Architecture--Human factors.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Health aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 397 pages) : color illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Lisa Heschong is an architect and founding principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (HMG), a building sciences consulting firm, where she led groundbreaking research showing a relationship between daylight and student test scores, retail sales, and office worker performance. Heschong is the author of the classic Thermal Delight in Architecture, along with many technical publications about daylighting and energy effi ciency in buildings. A graduate of UC Berkeley and MIT, she is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), and received the ARCC 2012 Haecker Award for Architectural Research. Heschong lives in Santa Cruz, California, with her husband, two horses, and a sailboat, where she never tires of watching the changing colors of the surrounding ocean and sky.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2021).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Heschong, Lisa. Visual delight in architecture.
- ISBN:
- 9781000378931
- 1000378934
- 9781003097594
- 1003097596
- 9781000378962
- 1000378969
- Publisher Number:
- 99988644346
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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