Lisa Heschong

eBook, PDF

Visual Delight in Architecture (eBook, PDF)

Daylight, Vision, and View

Beschreibung

This book examines the many ways that our lives are enriched by the presence of natural daylight illumination and window views within our buildings. It is written to engage and challenge a variety of readers, including all forms of building and urban designers, plus anyone interested in human health and wellbeing.

Technische Details

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• Text-to-Speech
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Autor

Lisa Heschong is an architect and founding principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (HMG), a building sciences consulting firm, where she led groundbreaking research showing a relationship between daylight and student test scores, retail sales, and office worker performance. Heschong is the author of the classic Thermal Delight in Architecture, along with many technical publications about daylighting and energy effi ciency in buildings. A graduate of UC Berkeley and MIT, she is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), and received the ARCC 2012 Haecker Award for Architectural Research. Heschong lives in Santa Cruz, California, with her husband, two horses, and a sailboat, where she never tires of watching the changing colors of the surrounding ocean and sky.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000378931
• Artikelnr.: 61311884