Daylighting: Architecture and Lighting Design
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (521 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0419257004 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This authoritative and multi-disciplinary book provides architects, lighting specialists, and anyone else working daylight into design, with all the tools needed to incorporate this most fundamental element of architecture. It includes:an overview of current practice of daylighting in architecture and urban planning a review of recent research on daylighting and what this means to the practitionera global vision of architectural lighting which is linked to the climates of the world and which integrates view, sunlight,
"An interdisciplinary work of high quality with a broad spectrum from urban planning and architecture to lighting design that is well balanced between scientific principles and practical relevance" – Helmut Mueller, Detail
His publications include many research papers on daylighting and he is the co-author with David Loe of The Design of Lighting (Routledge, 1998).Michael Wilson is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster, UK. He has undertaken more than 25 research, dissemination and demonstration proje
A good book with some omissions. Although there is a lot about how to calculate illuminance manually some important information is missing. This makes the manual calculation impossible. I was able to use the sundial diagrams with the fish eye lens with good results. The theory is good.