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

By: Descottes, Hervé.
Contributor(s): Ramos, Cecilia E.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Architecture briefs: Publisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2011Edition: 1st ed.Description: 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781568989389 (alk. paper); 1568989385 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Light in architecture | LightingDDC classification: 729/.28
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.