Architecture of Natural Light

Name: Architecture of Natural Light
Price: 132.75 USD
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ISBN: 9781580932400

ISBN-10: 1580932401

ISBN-13: 9781580932400

Edition: 2009

Authors: Henry Plummer

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Shelter and natural light are fundamental elements of architecture. The first is concerned with protection from natural elements; the second with the creative and sometimes spiritual interaction between the man-made and the natural worlds. One is solid and static, the other illuminates and animates. Architects through the ages have preoccupied themselves with how to marry these two opposing aspects of architecture, a marriage that at its finest transforms natural light itself into a building material. Seen through the eyes of an architect and photographer, The Architecture of Natural Light is the first publication to consider the many effects of natural illumination in contemporary…

Book details

List price: $78.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Monacelli Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/29/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 10.50" wide x 11.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.202
Language: English



The Other Architecture


Constructing metaphysical space


Evanescence: Orchestration of light to mutate through time


Procession: Choreography of light for the moving eye


Veils of Glass: Refraction of light in a diaphanous film


Atomization: Sifting of light through a porous screen


Canalization: Channelling of light through a hollow mass


Atmospheric Silence: Suffusion of light with a unified mood


Luminescence: Materialization of light in physical matter


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