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The history of great architecture is the history of buildings that adapt creatively to light. Light possesses the power to transform an ordinary building into a majestic edifice that inspires awe. Architects rely heavily on light, looking to it as a tool that reveals form and forges the important connection between vision and construction.Designing With Light, by award-winning architect Victoria Meyers, explores the myriad ways in which light is used in contemporary… More >>
Architects work with light as one of the basic components of design. Unlike the more technical and morphological aspects of building, light is very difficult to learn and understand without direct experience. Knowledge of the nature and effects of light comes by seeing examples and thinking about them. This book provides the next best thing to being there.
Discussions of light usually tend to the poles of the technical or the mystical. “Designing With Light” approaches it as a medium and discipline. The book provides wonderful examples and also begins a necessary process of categorization to help build a basic ‘vocabulary’ of light and its behavior. Victoria Meyers is an accomplished architect whose work exhibits a sensitive handling of her topic. I look forward to Volume Two, in which her analytic eye and mind continues the difficult project of making knowledge of this ‘ineffable’ subject more systematized and communicable.
Rating: 5 / 5
Victoria Meyers leaves no stone unturned as she weaves through the worlds of Architecture, Art, and Science to illustrate the broad and intricate capacities of light.
If you are familiar with the work of hanrahanMeyers you will not be surprised to find the genuinely breath-taking spreads that are to be found within its covers. The pages of this book are jam-packed with beautiful imagery and words that are sure to inspire any creative mind as much as it has mine !
Rating: 5 / 5
The book is good, not AMAZING! but it is a nice walk into the world of architectural lighting trough a group pf great projects.
Architects: good choice for ideas, if you are interested in lighting.
Lighting Designers: I won’t lie to you, it is nice, but only that.
Good for Beginners…
Rating: 3 / 5
I am a trained architect working in the field of residential design. There is an immense desire for information on lighting design and scant little available. This book is one of many I have found that capitalizes on that problem but fails to deliver any worthwhile assistance. I am not criticizing the architecture which this coffee table volume serves mainly to promote. I just wish it offered some useful guidance pertinent to other less idiosyncratic applications. A better choice is Sally Storey’s “Lighting by Design”.
Rating: 2 / 5
Designing with light is a georgeous book. I love the title as well. It has amazing photos and it is stunning to look at. Every page is like a new adventure. It is one of the best design or architecture books I have ever seen. This book makes a beautiful coffee table book that you would love to share with your guests. The author shows a vast knowledge of architecture and the way that light aids in creating sophistication in design. I would highly reccommend this book for any artist’s, architect’s, designer’s or anyone’s collection for that matter. Bravo!
Rating: 5 / 5