foreword
Light is the prime creation. Its speed – nearly 3000 million metres per second – is the limit of material being, the ultimate prison from which there is no escape.
Light is impalpable yet pervasive in our everyday lives; each time you flip an electric switch you do so knowing that the room into which you step will be revealed or transformed by that very trite gesture. Buildings depend on the very light that shapes them, they get in the way of light; they cast linear shadows just as light itself seems to radiate in straight lines. The craft of sciography grew to provide a mode of reading volume through light and shadow, for light inevitably presupposes shadow.
The architect can be a victim of light – as some of the builders of the twenties ...
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