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The Architecture of Light : Recent Approaches to Designing with Natural Light.

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 environ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steane, Mary Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Speaking of light, speaking with light: Le Corbusier's 'carnets de recherche patiente', Une Petite Maison and La Chapelle de Ronchamp
  • Desert tent: Light and geometry in the church of the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Tinity, Las Condes, Santiago de Childe
  • Deciding the colouring of things: Scarpa's Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
  • Reading light at Seinajoki, Finland, and Viana do Castelo, Portugal: Aalto's and Siza's conspicuous conservation of daylight
  • Enlightening conversation: The Music Room and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile
  • Seeing the light: The Poole House, Lake Weyba, Queensland / James Bichard, ed. Mary Ann Steane
  • O'Donnell and Tuomey's lesson in teh history and geography of light: The Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School, Dublin, 1998
  • Inverse light? The vulnerable openings of Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Berlin
  • 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
  • The electricity of daylight? Herzong and De Meuron's excavation of dusk at London's Bankside Power Station, 1998-2000
  • Index.