Light is the element that reveals architecture.It renders texture and materials, illuminates surfaces and spaces, it creates atmospheres. The present book pretends to be a suggestive and useful guide for those who are conscious of the main role natural light and artificial lighting play in architecture, landscape and interior design.

Light is the element that reveals architecture. It renders texture and materials, illuminates surfaces and spaces, it creates atmospheres. Light in Architecture is a suggestive and useful guide for those who are conscious of the main role natural light and artificial lighting play in architecture, landscape and interior design. Text, pictures, figures and drawings will guide them through this essential aspect of contemporary design and architecture.

INTRCDUCTION

INTERIOR LIGHTING

NATURAL LIGHTING

Transparency

House in Highgate

New Trade Fair Milano

Villa Moda

Department Store Omega

Limoges Concert Hall

The Christ Pavilion,

Expo 2000, Volkenroda Monastery

Louis Vuitton Omotesando

Paris Offices

Sado Bottling Factory NISACO

Zenith light and Ocuius

The Taichung Metropolitan Opera House

Enlargement of the Kastner

and Ohler Headquarters

Baluarte Auditorio and Palacio de

Congresos de Navarra

Mirrors and Reflection

Mix Restaurant

HydraPier

The Blizard Building

Three Art Museums: Wind, Stone & Water

Art Pavilion

Faculty of Arts Library, Masaryk University

Palais des Congres

Whitechapel Idea Store

Centro de Artes de Sines

Alfred Lerner Hall Student Centre

Broadway Cineplex

Tyre Shop -Art Exchange

Townhall of Ostfildern - Stadt.haus

Europark 2 Inseln

Flon Railway and Bus Station

National Choreographic Centre

Bt Cellnet'02 Mobile Applications

Perierations

Louis Vuitton Ginza Namiki

Consejo Regulador Ribera O. Overc

Espacio de Creaci6n Artistica Contemporanea

Aomori Museum of Art

Mucem

Louis Vuitton Nagoya

Projection Surtaces

Media facade T-Mobile

Spots Light

Nobel Peace Center

Sensitive Facades

Free University

Galleria Department Store

Agbar Tower

Bix Project

ERCO P3

Castell Zuoz

Guarderia els Colors

Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana de Plasencia

Marstall Mensa

Indirect light

Si Einfamilienhaus

EXTERIOR LIGHTING

URBAN SPACES

Streets and Iineal space

Niccolo Paganini Auditorium

In Out Sony Center

Powerplant Artistic Light Installation

Squares

Elefetheria Square

Dali square

Pey Berland Square

Hud Plaza Improvements

LANDSCAPES AND BRIDGES

Landscapes

Brandgrens Rotterdam

Metropol Parasol

Nuit des Docks

L'O Quai Branly Museum

Erco Lichtwiese

Bridges

Sackler Crossing Bridge

Marsupial Bridge and Urban Plaza

Gateshead Millennium Bridge

MEMORIALS AND EVENTS

Memorials

Monument in commemorating the

victims of March 11, 2004

Louvre

Events

A Blanc Nuit Blanche

Moet Marquee - Espace Lumiere

Road Show Philips: Colonscope

Credits