The Architecture of Light: Recent Approaches to Designing with Natural Light

by Mary Ann Steane (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $204.85

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $69.40

  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.