415pp., Pictorial full colour illustrated stiff covers with hint of creasing to front and rear panel, black endpapers, preface by Rogier van der Heide, publisher's note by Robert Steiger, intro. by eds., col. & b/w plts. & illust. & text, full & dbl. page col. photographs, tables, research overview, location index. Lighting design is about creating emotions with light. This book represents the first global study on the work of lighting designers. The interviews are about the aesthetical and emotional aspects in the field of architectural lighting. Size: Octavo.

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Title: Light and Emotions: Exploring Lighting Cultures- Conversations with Lighting Designers
Publisher: Birkhauser, Basel
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3034606907
ISBN 13: 9783034606905
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Near Fine
Book Type: Book

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In addition to its practical functions, such as helping to optimize safety and security, lighting also has another principal task – creating emotions. Light and color can be used to achieve the most varied and astonishing effects. These effects are dependent on the project and spatial environment, but they also depend in large measure on cultural context. This study is based on forty-seven interviews with leading lighting designers from North and South America, Europe, and Asia. For the first time, it explores in a systematic fashion what aesthetic, emotional, and atmospheric tasks a good lighting design can accomplish. The international diversity of the interviewed designers makes for surprising insights. Universal constants are pointed out, but so are the remarkable differences in reception and effect that are occasioned by different societies and cultures. It is imperative, then, for professional lighting designers and architects to familiarize themselves with these "lighting cultures," and this book offers an informative and stimulating opportunity to do so.

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