1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145947803321

Titolo

Sciacca e il pensiero francese : atti dell'ottavo Corso della Cattedra Sciacca : Genova, 25-26 settembre 2002 / / a cura di Pier Paolo Ottonello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : L. S. Olschki, 2003

Descrizione fisica

110 p

Collana

Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di studi sulla storia del pensiero europeo M. F. Sciacca, Università di Genova. Sez. Atti ; ; 10

Altri autori (Persone)

OttonelloPier Paolo

Disciplina

194

195

Soggetti

Philosophy, French - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings.

Texts in Italian or French.

Michele Federico Sciacca (1908-1975).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961818603321

Autore

Steane Mary Ann

Titolo

The architecture of light : recent approaches to designing with natural light / / Mary Ann Steane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2011

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-84280-7

1-135-65588-X

0-203-71550-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Disciplina

729/.28

Soggetti

Light in architecture

Lighting, Architectural and decorative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; The Architecture of Light; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustration credits; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Daylighting in the era of electricity; 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 Trinity, Las Condes, Santiago de Chile; 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 daylight5. 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 lessons in the history and geography of light: The RanelaghMulti-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 Shell10. The electricity of daylight?



Herzog and De Meuron's excavation of dusk at London's Bankside Power Station, 1998-2000; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 strateg