TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tregenza, Peter
AU  - Wilson, Michael
TI  - Daylighting : architecture and lighting design
SN  - 9780419257004
U1  - 729.28 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London 
PB  -  Routledge
KW  - Daylighting
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Light in architecture
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / Lighting
N1  - 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 practitioner a global vision of architectural lighting which is linked to the climates of the world and which integrates view, sunlight, diffuse skylight and electric lighting up-to-date tools for design in practice delivery of information in a variety of ways for interdisciplinary readers: graphics, mathematics, text, photographs and in-depth illustrations a clear structure: eleven chapters covering different aspects of lighting, a set of worksheets giving step-by-step examples of calculations and design procedures for use in practice, and a collection of algorithms and equations for reference by specialists and software designers. This book should trigger creative thought. It recognizes that good lighting design needs both knowledge and imagination
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