Steane, Mary Ann <br/><br/>
Architecture of light :   recent approaches to designing with natural light / 
by Mary Ann Steane 
 - London :  Routledge,  2011. 
 - ix, 246 p. : ill., maps 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Contents : 1. Speaking of light, speaking with light: Le Corbusier's 'carnets de recherche patiente', Une Petite Maison and La Chapelle de Ronchamp --<br/>2. Desert tent: Light and geometry in the church of the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Tinity, Las Condes, Santiago de Childe --<br/>3. Deciding the colouring of things: Scarpa's Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice --<br/>4. Reading light at Seinajoki, Finland, and Viana do Castelo, Portugal: Aalto's and Siza's conspicuous conservation of daylight --<br/>5. Enlightening conversation: The Music Room and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile --<br/>6. Seeing the light: The Poole House, Lake Weyba, Queensland / James Bichard, ed. Mary Ann Steane --<br/>7. O'Donnell and Tuomey's lesson in teh history and geography of light: The Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School, Dublin, 1998 --<br/>8. Inverse light? The vulnerable openings of Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Berlin --<br/>.9 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 --<br/>10. The electricity of daylight? Herzong and De Meuron's excavation of dusk at London's Bankside Power Station, 1998-2000 --<br/>Index. 
<br/><br/> 	<br/>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 set. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415394796 9780415394796 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Light in architecture<br/>Lighting, Architectural and decorative<br/>architecture--Interior Design--Lighting.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>729.28  / STE-A