Illuminating : natural light in residential architecture

Introduction
Darker Living. How Artificial Light Teaches Us to Love Daylight
Well Lighted? On the Status Quo of the Hunger for Light
	Irreplaceable Daylight
	The Call for Brightness
	Habits and Positive Attributions
	Artificial Light
	The Myth of Light
	The Myth of Glass
	Overexposures
Modern Living. Light-flooded Houses
	Modern = Bright
	Hygiene through Light and Housing Reform
	Modern Architecture, Modern Living
	Equal Heights for Equal People
	Floor Plan and Typology: Into the Light
	Increasing Density and Lighting: Rows, Blocks, and Towers
	In Healthy Light: Balconies, Loggias, Terraces
	Continuing to Build with Distinction
	Light, Sight, Space. Experiencing Light, Perceiving Space, and Looking Out
Light and Sight
	Between Inside and Outside
	Looking Out: Information and Contemplation
	The Window’s Loss of Importance
	The Spatial Box: Discretion in Muted Light
	The Framed View
	BursBursting the Box: New Spaces of Experience
	FlowFlowing Spaces: Visual Boundlessness and Clarifying Brightness
	The Form of Windows and the Interior
	The Mise-en-Scène of Prospects
	Last Stop: Glass House
	Rehabilitating Darkness
	From the Form to the Shell
	New Pleasure in Transparency: “The Un-Private House”
	Semitransparent Shells: Veiled Views and the Diffusion of Light
	Metamorphoses of the Facade
	Reveiling the Unveiled: Protection from Sun and Prying Eyes
	Multiple Layers
	Shown in a Good Light
Illuminating: Seeing Well and Seeing Comfortable Qualities of Natural Light and Rules of Thumb for Design
	Good Light Planning?
	The Given Situation and Local Conditions: Designing the Exterior
	The Climate Zone
	The Building’s Surroundings
	The Sun’s Orientation
	The Building Volumes and Facades
	Quantitative Objectives
	Interior Design and Functional Lighting
	The Composition of Natural Light
	Terms in Lighting Technology
	The Distribution of Luminance and Transitions
	Rules of Thumb for Interior Design
	The Height and Depth of the Room
	The Size and Position of Windows
	Vertical or Horizontal Openings
	Shadows of Other Buildings
	Increasing and Optimizing Light
	Light from One Side
	Light from More than One Side
	Qualitative Objectives
	Interior Design and Seeing Comfortably
	Light for Information and Wayfinding
	Directing Light and Shading
	Modeling Space
	Reducing Contrast
	Modulating Diffuse Brightness
	Glare Control
	Disability Glare from Excessive Luminances
	Discomfort Glare from Excessive Luminance Contrast
	Silhouette Effect
	Solar Control and Directing Sunlight
	Single-Skin Facades
	Double-Skin and Multiple-Skin Facades
	Daylight as Design Medium
Lighting Effects: Beyond Seeing Comfortably. Well-Being, Mood, Experience
	The Consequences of Flooding with Light
	A Loss of Homeyness?
	Physiological and Psychological Comfort
	One’s Own Four Walls
	Buffer Zones and Transitional Spaces
	The Veiled Gaze
	The Hiding Place
	The Island of Light
	The Home as a Place of Memory
	Lighting and the Experience of Space
	A Play with Lights and a Theater of Materials
Best of: Eleven Masters of Natural Light Landmark Concepts of Light
	Le Corbusier: Purifying Light
	Richard Neutra: Invigorating Light
	Frank Lloyd Wright: Vitalizing Light
	Alvar Aalto: Ephemeral Light
	Louis I. Kahn: Purist Light
	Luis Barragán: Meditative Light
	Tadao Ando: Spiritual Light
	Jean Nouvel: Illusionistic Light
	Toyo Ito: Atmospheric Light
	SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa: Suggestive Light
	Steven Holl: Animating Light
Selected Bibliography
Illustration Credits
On the Authors
Acknowledgments