This book is concerned with devising electric lighting installations for architectural spaces that will contribute towards achieving architectural design objectives. It is written for architects, interior designers and specialist lighting designers. It presumes a basic knowledge of lighting technology, although a brief summary is given in the Appendices for the benefit of those who might need an occasional reminder.
[...]... first thing about the lighting, is not the issue To become a lighting designer it is necessary to understand the role of lighting in revealing that experience This is done by objectively examining interactions of light and matter and developing an extensive range of observation-based experience of lighting Part Two is titled Visualization A lighting design concept develops in the designer’s mind, and... professional designers working on the project Part Three is titled Realization Unlike stage and studio lighting designers, the architectural lighting designer realizes the design xiv Introduction concept through the medium of a technical specification This leap from the cerebral to the technical involves calculations and understanding the performance characteristics of lighting equipment, but the designer... affected by lighting While this may seem to be a daunting task, it should be obvious that the essential components of lighting design are there for all to see The first vital step towards becoming a lighting designer is to develop confidence in the evidence of your own eyes Visible characteristics of objects 1 At first, it seems obvious that we provide lighting to enable people to see, so that all lighting. .. new lighting designed by William Lam Associates The uplighting in the Main Concourse is by two-to-one combinations of metal halide and high pressure sodium lamps, the sodium lamps having been added to cause the gold leaf decoration to gleam This is effective both by day and by night, despite the vastly different overall appearance of the terminal 4 Observation This chapter examines the role of lighting. .. Kit Cuttle Auckland, 2008 Introduction This book is concerned with devising electric lighting installations for architectural spaces that will contribute towards achieving architectural design objectives It is written for architects, interior designers and specialist lighting designers It presumes a basic knowledge of lighting technology, although a brief summary is given in the Appendices for the benefit... mind, and its strength depends on the designer’s ability to visualize three-dimensional space and to bring to that vision observation-based experience of lighting This use of the term visualization should not be confused with computer-generated renderings The process described involves mentally applying lighting design criteria to build up a visualization of the design situation in light, and developing... remarkable reputation for its contributions to daylighting design, and I became increasingly involved in giving seminars on the DAS’s design tools at schools of architecture It was Professor James Bell who encouraged me to study for my Masters degree at the University of Manchester, and at about this time, Harry Hewitt invited me to join the IES Lighting Design Panel This group of experts had the task... Observation, and the thesis is that the aspects of lighting that concern a designer are those that can be seen to make a difference The problem is that we all take lighting for granted, and we simply do not notice what lighting can do until we direct ourselves to look for it If people enjoy the visual experience of a space or the objects it contains, the lighting must have been working well for them That... appearance can be influenced by subtle aspects of lighting, and so too can our more complex assessments of the appearance of architectural spaces A basis of theory enables designers to examine their own observations of the things that surround them Differences of object appearance have their origin in the physical processes by which light is reflected, refracted, dispersed and scattered by matter But human... them to visualize their design concepts in light Some of the ideas that I make use of have appeared in published papers, and I am grateful to Lighting Research and Technology for having given me opportunities to offer my thoughts for peer scrutiny Also, I want to thank Lighting Design ϩ Application, who between 1995 and 1999 published 34 articles of mine in a monthly column titled Cuttle on Calculations” .