Architectural Lighting contains a comprehensive and in-depth coverage of lighting fundamentals. The balanced presentation of natural and artificial lighting offers an advantage over many books on lighting design that solely consider electrical lighting.

Extensively revised, this Second Edition offers architects and designers the most current thinking and practice in their profession on the scientific properties of light, the uses of natural and electric light in buildings, lighting effects and applications, and design tools and processes.

Includes new application sections on:

• New products and techniques
• Lighting controls
• Outdoor lighting
• Lighting guidelines for offices, libraries and museums
• Daylighting in buildings
• Techniques of lighting from an architectural perspective
• Plus much more!

The abundance of illustrations and example problems give students of architecture, engineering, and interior design an understanding of the basics of light and vision essential for creating illuminated spaces which satisfy human needs.

To help the reader on the job, there is full coverage of lighting calculation methods, including the Lumen Method, as well as a number of useful CAD and computer rendering solutions.

Architectural Lighting is a broad reference that includes many approaches and ways of considering and working with light in architecture.

Contents

1. Vision Perception
2. Properties of Light
3. Natural Light in Buildings
4. Electric Light
5. Light and Form
6. Lighting Calculation Methods
7. Design Tools
8. Design Process

Appendices
Indices

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