This elegantly written book describes the changes in the perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin and London. The lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a n…
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An introduction to the use of light for students and visual artists, this is the first book to look at the way light can be used to create realistic and fantastical effects in a wide range of visual media. A valuable resource for animators, digital illustrators, painters or arti…
Visual ergonomics handbook
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The improvement of public lighting is an effective and economical way to enhance the attractiveness of urban downtown areas. Drawing on the author's experience, this book addresses the technical and planning aspects of the task and provides important information on feasibility a…
"Improvement of public lighting is an effective and also cost-efficient measure for the sustainable enhancement of inner cities. Many cities in Germany and Europe have now realised this and are investing in complete new urban lighting schemes, devised on the basis of lighting ma…
Description Lighting has the power to illuminate and enhance our experience within the built environment. The light that enables people to travel around their neighbourhood or their city; the light which they see themselves and their neighbourhood under. Research into the effect…
Part 1: The role of light in architecture -- Light and perception -- Light and geography -- Light as an instrument for abstraction -- Part 2: Working with light in architecture -- Natural light: bringing the outside, inside -- Filtered light: creating atmosphere -- Focused light…
Architectural Lighting, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, provides both a critical approach to and a conceptual framework for understanding the application of lighting in the built environment. The key considerations of lighting design are illuminated throug…
Light and shadow belong together. Yet the increasing number of artificial light sources on earth are resulting in continuously decreasing zones of shadow and darkness. In architecture, the growing use of glass and other translucent layers questions the very significance of shado…
Stage Lighting: Design Applications and More builds upon the information introduced in Stage Lighting: The Fundamentals to provide an in-depth reference to a number of specialty areas of lighting design, from traditional applications such as drama, dance, and designing for diffe…