Architecture & Built Environment · Architectural Design
A topic within Architectural Design, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Junichiro Tanizaki
Argues that traditional Japanese architecture is built around shadow and dim reflected light rather than illumination, and that the electric pursuit of brightness destroyed an aesthetic tradition built on darkness.
Henry Plummer
Surveys how twentieth-century architects used natural light as a primary design material, arguing light itself, not just the surfaces it falls on, carries architectural meaning.