(Ebook) Daylighting: Architecture and Lighting Design by Peter Tregenza, Michael Wilson ISBN 9780419257004, 0419257004

(Ebook) Daylighting: Architecture and Lighting Design by Peter Tregenza, Michael Wilson ISBN 9780419257004, 0419257004

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 planninga 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, diffuse skylight and electric lightingup-to-date tools for design in practicedelivery of information in a variety of ways for interdisciplinary readers: graphics, mathematics, text, photographs and in-depth illustrationsa 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.