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Concepts and Practice of Architectural Daylighting
Moore, Fuller

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985, New York. ISBN 0-442-26439-9. Natural illumination in architecture has a vast, untapped potential for saving energy while adding visual excitement to buildings. This timely book bridges the gap between current research in daylighting and practical applications, giving...


Perception and Lighting as Formgivers for Architecture
Lam, William C.

McGraw Hill, 1977, New York. ISBN 0-07-036094-4. This book discusses the working tools of the lighting designer and the role of lighting as a formgiver for architecture. Thoroughly illustrated examples are included, as well as useful rules of thumb for the designer. The book also covers the use o...


Light Revealing Architecture
Marietta S. Millet

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; (February 19, 1996). ISBN: 0-471-28644-3. Light Revealing Architecture is an engaging book which inspires creative thinking about light and lighting in architecture. The author shows how specific lighting effects are achieved from an architectural approach. Millet al...


Architectural Lighting
M. David Egan, Victor W. Olgyay

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math. Release Date: 14 August, 2001. ISBN 0-07-020587-6. Architectural Lighting, second edition, contains a comprehensive and in-depth coverage of lighting fundamentals. The balanced presentation of natural and artificial lighting offers an advantage ...


Sunlighting as Formgiver for Architecture
Lam, William C.

Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1986. ISBN 0-442-25941-7. This book is for architects who are truly interested in how people feel in their buildings. The author gives a clear explanation of the properties of light, particularly sunlight, and provides an understandable guide to designing with lig...


Human Factors in Lighting
Boyce, P. R.

Publishing Co., New York, 1981. ISBN 0-7484-0950-5. This book presents a comprehensive review of the latest knowledge on the interaction of people and lighting. The world of lighting has changed considerably in recent years. New light sources and new methods of light distribution have become avai...


Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies
G. Z. Brown, Mark DeKay

2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons. 24 October, 2000. ISBN 0-471-34877. Developed for rapid use during schematic design, this book clarifies relationships between form and energy and gives designers tools for designing sustainably. It also applies the latest passive energy and lighting design researc...


Daylighting in Architecture: A European Reference Book
Baker, N., Fanchiotti, A. & Steemers, K. (1993)

James & James. London (UK). ISBN 1-873936-21-4. This book is based on the work of 25 experts from all parts of Europe who have collected, evaluated and developed the material. It is a comprehensive text on the subject representing the state of the art in daylighting analysis and design. It covers...


Daylight Performance of Buildings
Fontoynont, M. (ed.) (1999).

European Commission Directorate General XII for Science. Research and Development. James & James. London (UK). 304 pages, ISBN 1-873936-87-7. This book presents the results of a daylight perofrmance study that was performed for sixty buildings. Buildings of many different types, sizes and ages we...


Daylight in Buildings
International Energy Agency (2000)

A source book on daylighting systems and components. IEA SHC Task 21/ECBCS Annex 29, July 2000. (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Report LBNL-47493). This book is the result of a coordinated international effort to gather the most up-to-date information available about the application and e...


Daylighting: Natural Light in Architecture
Derek Phillips

Oxford : Architectural Press, 2004. - xxiii, 212 p. ISBN 0 7506 6323 5 Daylighting offers a general theory and introduction to the use of natural light in architecture. The fourth of Derek Phillip's lighting books draws on his experience to illustrate how best to bring natural light into building...


The Solar House: Passive Solar Heating and Cooling
Daniel D. Chiras

White River Junction, VT : Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2002. - X, 274 s. ISBN : 1931498121. While heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really understand the principles involved. Yet "natural conditioning" -heatin...


Daylighting and Window Design
Lighting Guide LG10. CIBSE, 1999. ISBN: 0900953985.

Daylighting and Window Design is essantially a daylight design guid eand a major part of the content deals with this topic. When daylighting decisions are made, however, they will have implications for other, interrelated aspects of window performance such as solar heat gain, winter heat loss...


The Healing Sun
Richard Hobday

Forres, Scotland : Findhorn Press, 1999 - 168 s. : ill., 23 cm. ISBN: 1-899171-97-5. The Healing Sun explores the benefits of exposing your body to the sun, rather than the dangers. It has been written with the aim of restoring a little balance to the currently rather one-sided debate on s...


Solar Radiation and Daylight Models
T. Muneer

Solar radiation and daylight models : (with software available from companion web site) / T. Muneer ; with a chapter on solar spectral radiation by C. Gueymard and H. Kambezidis. - 2. ed.. - Oxford ; Burlington, MA : Eslevier Butterworth Heinemann, c2004. -xlii, 345 s. : ill., 24 cm. ISBN: 075065974...


Windows in Buildings: Thermal, Acoustic, Visual and Solar Performance
T. Muneer (et al.)

Oxford : Architectural Press, 2000. 258p. + Bilag: 1 CD-ROM. ISBN: 0750642092. Glass and glazing systems lie at the heart of window design. An understanding of their interaction and relation to built structures is crucial to the modern designer. Windows in Buildings meets this need: it pre...


Architecture in a Climate of Change: A Guide to Sustainable Design
Peter F. Smith

Architecture in a climate of change: a guide to sustainable design / Peter F. Smith. -2 ed., reprinted 2006. - Amsterdam; London: Eslevier, 2006. -xv, 278 s. : ill., maps, 25cm. ISBN 0750665440. Including new material on wind generation, domestic water conservation, solar thermal electricity as w...


Dynamic Daylighting Architecture: Basics, Systems, Projects
Helmut Köster

Basel : Birkhäuser - Publishers for Architecture, 2004. - 463 p. : ill. ISBN: 376436730X. When planning buildings in which people are to work and live, the efficient use of natural daylight and solar energy is increasingly important. The challenge is to compensate the different lighting requireme...


Made of Light: The Art of Light and Architecture
Mark Major, Jonathan Speirs, Anthony Tischhauser

Basel : Birkhäuser, 2005. - 231 s. : ill. (chiefly col.), 30 cm. ISBN: 376438608. Our visual world is made of light. We light to see and to communicate. We light for security, to create mood and atmosphere, to enhance and entertain. Where natural light fails man has learned to improvise, constant...


The Light Revolution: Health, Architecture and the Sun
Richard Hobday

Findhorn Press, 2006. 172 p. ISBN: 1-84409-087-6. Over the last 50 years the way in which buildings have been designed, and towns and cities planned, has paid little regard to the health benefits of sunlight. Much that was known on the subject has been ignored or forgotten. Two thousand years ago...


L Éclairage Naturel des Bâtiments
Sigrid Reiter et André De Herde

Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2004. ISBN : 2-930344-57-1. La lumière naturelle est un des matériaux de conception de tout projet d'architecture. Cet ouvrage s'attache tant aux approches techniques qu'artistiques de l'éclairage naturel des espaces. Il décrit une méthodologie et les moyens pra...


DAYLIGHTING, ARCHITECTURE AND HEALTH: BUILDING DESIGN STRATEGIES
Mohamed Boubekri

Architectural Press, Elsevier, Oxford, UK ISBN-10: 0750667249; ISBN-13: 978-0750667241 Daylighting, Architecture and Health examines the relationship between natural light in buildings and human health, considering both psychological and physiological issues and bringing together a range of rese...


Daylighting
Hopkinson, Petherbridgde & Longmore. (1966)

Heinemann: London. ISBN 0434907634. This book is written around methods which the authors have found to be useful for the handling of both the numerical and qualitative aspects of daylighting, and is based primarily upon work done at the Building Research Station in England. The intention has bee...



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