Architectural Lighting: Designing with Light and Space Herve Descottes
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Architectural lighting design is the act of crafting space — exterior and interior — with light. Far too many architects only think of light This requires that we design lighting to not only meet a localized task metric, but purposely incorporate contrast, shade and shadow in order to have a greater impact on how a space is globally perceived. May 2, 2012 - Whether the light source is daylight or electric lighting, this utilitarian understanding of light is what is taught in most architecture programs and then practiced throughout the profession. Jul 29, 2009 - Once the direction of the lighting design is apparent – once the concept is in place – then we can look at different ways of achieving that same result using various types of light sources. Lighting should enhance the overall design, not call attention to itself. The deciding factors in that are color rendering, energy code compliance, lamp life, heat build-up, MR16 downlights alone are not the appropriate solution for lighting a space! This is illumination done in concert with architecture. May 27, 2011 - Architectural Lighting: Designing with Light and Space by Herve Descottes and Cecilia E. Publication date 5/1/2011 7 x 8.5 inches (17.8 x 21.6 cm), Paperback 144 pages, 177 color illustrations. Nov 26, 2013 - Crafting space with light requires knowledge, experience, and expertise. Mar 19, 2014 - Alison Berger, designer of highly alluring conceptual blown glass lights and other objects and furnishings, will receive a Star of Design award today at Westweek, the Pacific Design Center's spring design fair taking place today and She then left architecture for movie-set design and took up working with glass full time when her clients kept asking her to make pieces for their sets. One series of pieces I'm working on creates a canopy of light within a physical space.