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Designing With Light
An in-depth look at how light is used in contemporary architecture to delineate form, color, and space, with particular attention to major projects by international architects including Stephen Holl, Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas.
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 architecture, both internally and externally, to enhance the design and sense of space in a building. Vivid color photographs depict how architects employ light in buildings such as the Guggenheim Las Vegas and the National Gallery of Canada. Meyer looks at recent developments in the science of light, giving an overview of the history of light in architecture and demonstrating how the use of light in film, theater, and art has influenced light’s use in architecture. Meyers goes on to discuss how light creates architectural features such as color, line, and form, and how architects strive to control light through glass, windows, skylights, and the manipulation of shadow and reflection. She clearly illustrates these cases with intriguing examples from recent buildings designed by internationally renowned architects including Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, John Pawson and many others. Meyers’ lively, informative text and hundreds of rich color photographs are sure to fascinate those interested in architecture and design.
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 architecture, both internally and externally, to enhance the design and sense of space in a building. Vivid color photographs depict how architects employ light in buildings such as the Guggenheim Las Vegas and the National Gallery of Canada. Meyer looks at recent developments in the science of light, giving an overview of the history of light in architecture and demonstrating how the use of light in film, theater, and art has influenced light’s use in architecture. Meyers goes on to discuss how light creates architectural features such as color, line, and form, and how architects strive to control light through glass, windows, skylights, and the manipulation of shadow and reflection. She clearly illustrates these cases with intriguing examples from recent buildings designed by internationally renowned architects including Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, John Pawson and many others. Meyers’ lively, informative text and hundreds of rich color photographs are sure to fascinate those interested in architecture and design.
- GenresDesign
144 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2006
About the author
Victoria Meyers
14 books2 followersVictoria Meyers, hMa, founding partner of hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa), practices architecture in New York and Los Angeles, and specializes in designing buildings that use light, sound, and other natural phenomenon as material aspects of design: www.hanrahanMeyers.com; www.VictoriaMeyers.com.
Meyers has authored three books on her architectural works: Shape of Sound; Designing with Light; and The 4 States of Architecture, co-authored with Thomas Hanrahan.
hMa's most recent project is DWi-P, Digital Water i-Pavilion, in New York City, opposite the World Trade Center Memorial. DWi-P features a 550-foot long, interactive glass wall, at the edge of the 'Murray /Warren Street Sound Passage'. The 'Sound Passage' is an hMa designed walkway where visitors use cellphones to interact with a 550-foot long glass wall, and hear a composition by Composer and collaborator, Michael J. Schumacher. hMa's Sound Wal(k) offers the public access to a biomorphically responsive glass system.
Watch for more progress with communicative surfaces, as Meyers works on her latest project, a house for a Silicon Valley executive, with an interactive skin designed as a 'alien communication device'. More to come soon!
Meyers is currently working on a new book, linking architecture and wind.
Meyers has authored three books on her architectural works: Shape of Sound; Designing with Light; and The 4 States of Architecture, co-authored with Thomas Hanrahan.
hMa's most recent project is DWi-P, Digital Water i-Pavilion, in New York City, opposite the World Trade Center Memorial. DWi-P features a 550-foot long, interactive glass wall, at the edge of the 'Murray /Warren Street Sound Passage'. The 'Sound Passage' is an hMa designed walkway where visitors use cellphones to interact with a 550-foot long glass wall, and hear a composition by Composer and collaborator, Michael J. Schumacher. hMa's Sound Wal(k) offers the public access to a biomorphically responsive glass system.
Watch for more progress with communicative surfaces, as Meyers works on her latest project, a house for a Silicon Valley executive, with an interactive skin designed as a 'alien communication device'. More to come soon!
Meyers is currently working on a new book, linking architecture and wind.
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October 13, 2018
One could take issue with the fairly narrow curatorial range, esp. given how much of Meyer's own work is included in the images, but overall I got a lot out of it.
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