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A global survey of the most exciting lighting designs for interior spaces, featuring the latest interactive technologies, energy-efficient systems, and otherworldly experiences

The role of light in architecture extends well beyond practical requirements. Light can create an environment, saturate a space with emotion, and compose spatial illusions. When manipulated in the right ways, light makes an architectural space livable, shapes it, and guides the inhabitant through it. As our homes and buildings become increasingly interactive and connected to the "internet of things" (where physical objects such as a lamp or microwave are programmed in the "cloud"), the creative possibilities for lighting are growing exponentially.

This timely publication captures the most imaginative ideas for the use of light in homes and buildings. Some 200 projects are organized into three sections: lighting that transforms space, lighting that alters the experience of time, and lighting that evokes emotion or psychological change. Projects range from design solutions--practical applications and techniques for improving the ambience and function of our spaces for living and working--to highly experimental or immersive experiences that induce physiological responses or use entirely new sources of light, such as bioluminescence or rarefied gasses.

The role of light in architecture extends well beyond practical requirements. Light can create an environment, saturate a space with emotion, and compose spatial illusions. When manipulated in the right ways, light makes an architectural space livable, shapes it, and guides the inhabitant through it. As our homes and buildings become increasingly interactive and connected to the "internet of things" (where physical objects such as a lamp or microwave are programmed in the "cloud"), the creative possibilities for lighting are growing exponentially.

This timely publication captures the most imaginative ideas for the use of light in homes and buildings. Some 200 projects are organized into three sections: lighting that transforms space, lighting that alters the experience of time, and lighting that evokes emotion or psychological change. Projects range from design solutions-- practical applications and techniques for improving the ambience and function of our spaces for living and working--to highly experimental or immersive experiences that induce physiological responses or use entirely new sources of light, such as bioluminescence or rarefied gasses.

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Library Journal Review

This fascinating book exhibits light as an art form on a global scale, from Japan and Finland to Denver, CO, where the new Clyfford Still Museum recently opened after two years of work on the proper public skylight illumination for Still's magnificent paintings. The work of mainly European architects, designers, artists, sculptors, engineers, and painters is highlighted for their permanent installations in churches, residences, public works, retail stores, etc.-even the main stairwell of Versailles-as well as for their temporal projects for arts festivals worldwide. The result is entirely transformative: spiritual, reflective, refractive, artistic, and meditative as a result of nature, technology, and aesthetics coming together to form minimalism and sustainability. Space frames, wall piercings, monolights, chandeliers, super-thin OLED panels, self-supporting BIT lights, fiber-optic cable pipelines, and even CRI (color rendering index) are all pictured and described briefly and notably. In the age of apocalyptic climate change, this book speaks volumes about the value of art as light, both projected and immanent, of which works here boast beyond the ordinary fluorescent and iridescent that illuminate our environments. VERDICT Lumitecture replaces architecture in this title that is mainly recommended for architecture, art, and design libraries.-Peter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr. © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

At the beginning of this book, Yudina asks if light is source, tool, or experience. According to her, light is all of those and much more. She then proceeds to offer examples of what light actually does, in a space or to a space. The author looks at a wide range of public and private spaces that make unique use of light as either a practical element or a technique to enhance experience--physiological or psychological. The 15 photo essays highlight transforming space, time, and emotion. The color photographs of the installations are numerous and excellent, going well beyond commentary on design to reveal the many manifestations and effects of light as an element of architectural design. This is a book for those interested in innovative aspects of architecture and how architecture can affect human beings. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. --Robert Paul Meden, Marymount University

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Anna Yudina is co- founder and editor- in- chief of MONITOR magazine. She has curated design exhibitions on Zaha Hadid and Jakob + MacFarlane and has authored several books on architecture, including Furnitecture and Lumitecture . She lives in Paris.