Mary Ann Steane

The Architecture of Light (eBook, PDF)

Recent Approaches to Designing with Natural Light

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 strategies by setting them within their broader topographic, climatic and cultural contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135655884
• Artikelnr.: 38262966

Autorenporträt

Mary Ann Steane is an architect and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Her research on the use of natural light marries an understanding of lighting design principles with a broader cultural perspective. She examines how architects handle the relationship between light, material and the occupation of space, looking closely at the way in which these factors affect perception of and attunement to the visual environment.

Inhaltsangabe

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 at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Trinity
Las Condes
Santiago de Chile 3. Deciding the Colouring of Things: Carlo Scarpa's 1963 Fondazione Querini-Stampalia
Venice 4. Reading Light at Seinajoki
Finland
and Viana do Castelo
Portugal: Alvar Aalto and Alvaro Siza's Conspicuous Conservation of Daylight 5. Enlightening Conversation: The Music Room and the Open City
Ritoque
Chile 6. Seeing the Light: The Poole House
Noosa
Queensland 7. O' Donnell and Tuomey's Lessons in the History and Geography of Light: The Ranelagh Multi-denominational School
Dublin 8. Inverse Light? The Vulnerable Openings of Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum
Berlin 9. New Light for Old Across London: Recent Interventions at the Carmelite Priory
Kensington by Niall McLoughlin
and 1A John Campbell Road
Hackney by Lisa Shell 10. The Electricity of Daylight? Herzog and De Meuron's Excavation of Dusk at London's Bankside Power Station