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Architectural lighting : designing with light and space / Hervé Descottes, with Cecilia E. Ramos.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Architecture briefsPublication details: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781568989389 (pbk.: alk. paper)
  • 1568989385 (pbk.: alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 729.28 DES 22 008295
LOC classification:
  • NA2794 .D47 2011
Contents:
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.
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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.

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