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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: ix, 246 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 9780415394789 (hbk : alk. paper)
  • 0415394783 (hbk : alk. paper)
  • 9780415394796 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 0415394791 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 9780415394789:
Other title:
  • Recent approaches to designing with natural light
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 729.28
Contents:
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 the 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 the 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.

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