Daylighting - 9781138168497

Taylor & Francis

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. \n\nIt includes:\n\n--an overview of current practice of daylighting in architecture and urban planning\n--a review of recent research on daylighting and what this means to the practitioner \n--a global vision of architectural lighting which is linked to the climates of the world and which integrates view, sunlight, diffuse skylight and electric lighting\n--up-to-date tools for design in practice\n--delivery of information in a variety of ways for interdisciplinary readers: graphics, mathematics, text, photographs and in-depth illustrations\n--a 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 equati.