TY - BOOK AU - Steane, Mary Ann TI - Architecture of light : : recent approaches to designing with natural light SN - 9780415394796 U1 - 729.28 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Light in architecture KW - Lighting, Architectural and decorative KW - architecture KW - Interior Design KW - Lighting N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents : 1. Speaking of light, speaking with light: Le Corbusier's 'carnets de recherche patiente', Une Petite Maison and La Chapelle de Ronchamp -- 2. Desert tent: Light and geometry in the church of the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Tinity, Las Condes, Santiago de Childe -- 3. Deciding the colouring of things: Scarpa's Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice -- 4. Reading light at Seinajoki, Finland, and Viana do Castelo, Portugal: Aalto's and Siza's conspicuous conservation of daylight -- 5. Enlightening conversation: The Music Room and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile -- 6. Seeing the light: The Poole House, Lake Weyba, Queensland / James Bichard, ed. Mary Ann Steane -- 7. O'Donnell and Tuomey's lesson in teh history and geography of light: The Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School, Dublin, 1998 -- 8. Inverse light? The vulnerable openings of Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Berlin -- .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 -- 10. The electricity of daylight? Herzong and De Meuron's excavation of dusk at London's Bankside Power Station, 1998-2000 -- Index N2 - 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 ER -