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UNINA9910461995703321 |
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Autore |
Steane Mary Ann. |
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Titolo |
The architecture of light : recent approaches to designing with natural light / / Mary Ann Steane |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-84280-7 |
1-135-65588-X |
0-203-71550-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Light in architecture |
Lighting, Architectural and decorative |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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? |
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Herzog and De Meuron's excavation of dusk at London's Bankside Power Station, 1998-2000; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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