ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |25 pages
Speaking of Light, Speaking with Light
Le Corbusier's ‘Carnets de Recherche Patiente', Une Petite Maison
1
and La Chapelle de Ronchamp
2
chapter |22 pages
Desert Tent
Light and Geometry in the Church of the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Las Condes, Santiago de Chile
chapter |28 pages
Reading Light at Seinajoki, Finland, and Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Aalto's and Siza's Conspicuous Conservation of Daylight
chapter |20 pages
O'Donnell and Tuomey's Lessons in the History and Geography of Light
The Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School, Dublin, 1998
chapter |27 pages
New Light for Old Across London
Recent Interventions at the Carmelite Priory, Kensington, by Niall McLaughlin, and at LA John Campbell Road, Hackney, by Lisa Shell
chapter |22 pages
The Electricity of Daylight?
Herzog and de Meuron's Excavation of Dusk at London's Bankside Power Station, 1998–2000
