Main entry:

Steane, Mary Ann.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Description:

ix, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Speaking of light, speaking with light: Le Corbusier's 'carnets de recherche patiente', Une Petite Maison and La Chapelle de Ronchamp -- Desert tent: Light and geometry in the church of the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Tinity, Las Condes, Santiago de Childe -- Deciding the colouring of things: Scarpa's Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice -- Reading light at Seinajoki, Finland, and Viana do Castelo, Portugal: Aalto's and Siza's conspicuous conservation of daylight -- Enlightening conversation: The Music Room and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile -- Seeing the light: The Poole House, Lake Weyba, Queensland / James Bichard, ed. Mary Ann Steane -- O'Donnell and Tuomey's lesson in teh history and geography of light: The Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School, Dublin, 1998 -- Inverse light? The vulnerable openings of Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Berlin -- 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 Shell -- The electricity of daylight? Herzong and De Meuron's excavation of dusk at London's Bankside Power Station, 1998-2000 -- Index.

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

ISBN:

9780415394789 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415394783 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415394796 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415394791 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Light in architecture.
Lighting, Architectural and decorative.
Lumière en architecture.

Added entries:

Recent approaches to designing with natural light

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273445
Call No.: BIB 207079
Status: Available