Light in Architecture

part twoworking with light in architecture

Isn’t the history of architecture a history of different understandings of light?

Hadrian – Bernini – Le Corbusier!

Light is the basic, indispensable material of architecture. It has the mysterious but real capacity – the magical capacity – of bringing space into tension with man.

The capacity of endowing that space with such quality that people are deeply moved by it. Architectura sine luce nulla architectura est – architecture without light is not architecture.

– Alberto Campo Baeza, La idea construída

Most building materials have their quantities and qualities on a particular project specified precisely before the first stone has been laid. But architecture also uses another “material”, which ...