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Light: The Shape of Space: Designing with Space and Light

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Light: The Shape of Space Designing with Space and Light Lou Michel Every design professional who touches a space shapes the light and the feeling of that space. Architect, lighting engineer, interior designer, lighting or home furnishing manufacturer: each contributes an aesthetic layer, sometimes yielding unexpected results. All too often the best laid plans of one professional are unintentionally subverted by another. Removing surprises and guess work from design, Lou Michel, honored architectural lighting educator, has created Light: The Shape of Space, showing how to design with the effects of light rather than light itself. The book is a revolutionary resource for all design professionals and manufacturers of surfacing materials. Drawing on over fifteen years' experience of research and teaching in the architectural Space and Light Laboratory at The University of Kansas, Michel masterfully examines the interrelationship of lighting and the design of architectural space as perceived not in architectural photos or paint chips and fabric swatches, but by human vision - the gateway to emotional response. The book was written for professionals who care about how people feel in the spaces they design, and focuses on the humanization of architecture. Taking a non-stylistic approach to design, Michel analyzes architecture from the perspective of how the users see their surroundings as they move through space. The reader will learn what pleases and what disturbs people based on how the human visual system responds to color, texture, pattern, and brightness. The book features principles of design for the student and professional, and is generously supported by illustrations and research. Michel also provides a method for evaluating the visual effectiveness of building materials and lighting systems, including those that will appear on the market long after this book is dog-eared. Michel unveils a groundbreaking luminance brightness rating system (LBR) and a nine-zone brightness scale to aid designers in previsualizing the appearance of surfacing materials at every stage of the design process, from schematics to development to refinement. Among the topics treated are: * the interaction of lighting and spatial design* color theory for space and light* the luminance relationships between free-standing objects and the surrounding spatial boundaries against which they are seen* the appearance of building materials in color and brightness when modified by light and spatial location* lighting spatial connections, including the perception of rooms adjacent to the observer* lighting and perception of spaces screened by architectural grilles* creating lighted space Designing with the effects of light is both an art and a science. No other book on the market bridges that gap as successfully as Light: The Shape of Space.

Table of Contents:
93 Million Miles of Effect. VISUAL PERCEPTION AND LIGHT. Visual Perception for Architecture. The Effects of Light. Seeing Form-Space Relationships. Luminance Brightness of Building Materials: The LBR System. Color Theory for Architectural Space. ANALYSIS OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACE. The Spatial Envelope. Articulation of the Spatial Envelope. Role of the Structural System. Movement Through Space. DESIGNING WITH SPACE AND LIGHT. Lighting the Spatial Envelope. Lighting Forms in Space. Connecting Spaces with Light. Creating Lighted Space. Appendix. Bibliography. Indexes.

About the Author :
Lou Michel is a lighting and design educator who currently teaches at The University of Kansas. He is known for classroom motivation, and holds numerous teaching awards. Michel has been Director of the Space and Light Laboratory of the School of Architecture and Urban Design at The University of Kansas for over ten years. He has traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East, studying the interaction of space and light in historical and contemporary architecture. In addition, he has planned, designed, and produced exhibits for museums of history and natural science. Michel also lectures widely to an interdisciplinary audience, including gatherings of the AIA, IES, and ASID.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471286189
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 283 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Designing with Space and Light
  • Width: 219 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0471286184
  • Publisher Date: 27 Oct 1995
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 1080 gr


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