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Architectural Lighting

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Lighting design

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Architectural lighting design is the design and implementation of daylight and electric lighting provision in urban and architectural environments. This process requires conceptual thinking, design development, and illuminating engineering to produce lit environments for people’s work and leisure.

Lighting Quality

The built environment in which people live and work is composed of a variety of building types. In a shopping mall, retail units are expected to be colorful and attractive. In an art gallery, it is necessary to be able to appreciate the color and detail in a painting, and when walking in the city, people expect to remain safe and secure. All these impressions can be dramatically affected by the lighting. Boyce has suggested that bad lighting “does not allow you to see what you need to see, quickly and easily and/or causes you discomfort” [1]. If the lighting designer overcomes these problems, then they can produce – at best – indifferent...

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  1. University College of London Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, London, UK

    Kevin Mansfield & Peter Raynham

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  1. Color Science & Imaging Lab, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Renzo Shamey

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  1. van Bommel Lighting Consultant, Nuenen, XB, Netherlands

    Wout van Bommel

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Mansfield, K., Raynham, P. (2019). Architectural Lighting. In: Shamey, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_115-3

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