| Research Outline
01 Research Question
How does light affect us on a daily basis and how can an understanding
of light be used as a design tool to enhance our lives?
02 Interests
Light is vital to our lives. It orientates us in time and space
and allows us to see. Corbusier referred to light in his famous
quote, "Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent
play of masses brought together in light". I have come to see
light as the most important building material, in necessity of function
and the search for beauty in art and architecture.
03 Relationship to studio work
My studio work is concerned with modulating light through media
and projecting it. I have experimented with light as image and abstract
form in an attempt to understand its character. In trying to understand
light and sunlight in particular, without any other constraint,
it might be possible to apply it as an architectural tool.
04 The form of this research
Placing the work in context of the art and architecture world.
Defining light as a scientific phenomenon.
Understanding the psychology of vision and perception.
Light as a metaphor for enlightenment.
Interaction and participation.
The application of this research to a sun-space modulator.
05 References
Books
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Theory of colours,
Cambridge, Mass; London : M.I.T. Press, 1970.
Gregory, R. L, Eye and brain : the psychology of seeing,
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Hein, Jeppe, Until Now, London : Koenig
Books, 2006.
Minnaert, M. G. J, Light and colour in the open air,
London : Bell , 1940
Nye, J. F, Natural focusing and fine structure of light
: caustics and wave dislocations, Bristol ; Philadelphia,
PA : Institute of Physics Pub , 1999
Pask, G, The Cybernetic Psychology of Pleasure,
written prior to the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, London,
ICA, 1968.
Sebastiano Barassi, Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder, Immaterial,
Brancusi, Gabo, Moholy Nagy, Cambridge, Kettle Yard,
2004.
Tufnell, R, Platonic Love, Attila Csörgö,
Cambridge, Kettle Yard, 2004.
Waugh, Albert Edmund, Sundials: their theory and construction,
New York, Dover Publications,1973.
Webb, Robert Howard, Elementary wave optics,
New York ; London : Academic P , 1969
Zajonc, Arthur, Catching the light : the entwined history
of light and mind, London ; New YorkBantam Books ,
1993
Internet
A terrifying beauty (Filed: 12-11-2003, accessed:
14-04-06) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/11/12/batate12.xml
Have you talked about the weather today? (accessed
13-04-06)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/eliasson/default.htm
Light Modulator
http://www.lightmodulator.org/blog/
Magazines
Tate, Captain Spectcular, pg 58,
Sept/Oct 2003, Issue 7.
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