Architectural lighting :

Descottes, Hervé.

Architectural lighting : designing with light and space / Hervé Descottes, with Cecilia E. Ramos. - 1st ed. - New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2011. - 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm. - Architecture briefs . - Architecture briefs. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 142).

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Six visual principles of light -- Illuminance -- Luminance -- Color and temperature -- Height -- Density -- Direction and distribution -- Analysis -- High Line, New York, New York, United States -- Newtown Creek Water Pollution Treatment Plant, Brooklyn, New York, United States -- Jules Verne, Paris, France -- Beige, Tokyo, Japan -- Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland -- Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States -- Essays -- A conversation with Steven Holl -- Sensations of light, Sylvain Dubuisson -- Light and landscape, James Corner -- Appendices -- Lighting fixture layout and illuminance calculations -- Appendix A: Historical timeline of light sources -- Appendix B: Recommended illuminance values -- Appendix C: Color temperature vs. color rendering index of light sources -- Appendix D: Basic characteristics of general light sources -- Appendix E: Lighting symbol legend.

9781568989389 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1568989385 (pbk.: alk. paper)

2010027086

015659976 Uk


Light in architecture.
Lighting.

NA2794 / .D47 2011

729.28 DES / 008295