Gary Gordon

Interior Lighting for Designers (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This revised edition of the successful primer thoroughly covers fundamentals of lighting design, and also serves as a handy reference for professional designers. The Fifth Edition is more comprehensive than ever, with new information on LED, energy efficiency, and other current issues. In addition, it includes more information for drawing ceiling floor plans and the application of designs to specific types of interiors projects. Considered a "key reference" for the Lighting Certified exam, no other text combines both technical and creative aspects of lighting design for beginners and novice designers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118417713
• Artikelnr.: 42188359

Autorenporträt

Gary Gordon, FIALD, FIES is founder and?Principal Lighting Designer?of Gary Gordon LLC.?He has designed lighting systems for more than 1,000 corporate, hospitality,?institutional, residential, and retail projects. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the Lighting Institute at Parsons School of Design in New York, where he helped develop the Parsons MFA Lighting Design program. Mr. Gordon is a Fellow of both the Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Association of Lighting Designers.?As three-term president of the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions (NCQLP), he helped to establish the first national certificationprogram for lighting professionals.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION xv PART I DESIGN FACTORS 1 1
THE LIGHTING DESIGN PROCESS 3 2 PERCEPTION AND VISION 6 Visible Light 6 The
Eye and Brain 6 Brightness Perception 11 Color Perception 12 3 LIGHT AND
HEALTH 16 Photobiology and Nonvisual Effects 16 The Aging Eye 19 Light
Therapy 20 Assisted-Living and Eldercare Facilities 20 Dynamic Electric
Lighting 21 4 PSYCHOLOGY OF LIGHT 22 Emotional Impact 22 Degrees of
Stimulation 22 Degrees of Brightness Contrast 23 The Three Elements of
Light 27 Subjective Impressions 30 Certainty 33 Variation 33 5 PATTERNS OF
BRIGHTNESS 36 Direction and Distribution of Light 36 Surface Finishes and
Reflectances 43 Three-Dimensional Form 45 Glare and Sparkle 49 6 COLOR OF
LIGHT 56 Color Temperature 58 Color Rendering 59 Subjective Impressions 60
Surface Finishes and Color of Light 61 7 MEASUREMENT OF LIGHT 65
Quantitative Illumination 65 PART II LIGHT SOURCES 71 8 DAYLIGHT 73
Daylight Design 74 Shading Devices 80 Glazing Materials 83 Quantity of
Interior Daylight 83 9 FILAMENT SOURCES 86 Lamp Shapes 86 Lamp Bases 86
Filaments 87 Light Output 89 Tungsten-Halogen Lamps 91 Lamp Types 93
Low-Voltage Lamps 97 U.S. Legislation 99 Colored Light 100 10 LOW-INTENSITY
DISCHARGE SOURCES 104 Fluorescent Lamps 104 Lamp Characteristics 113 Health
and Safety Concerns 115 11 HIGH-INTENSITY DISCHARGE SOURCES 117 Mercury
Vapor Lamps 117 High-Pressure Sodium Lamps 118 Metal Halide Lamps 118 Lamp
Characteristics 120 Low-Pressure Sodium Lamps 124 12 SOLID-STATE LIGHTING
125 LEDs 125 Organic Light-Emitting Diodes 133 13 AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT 134
Ballasts 134 Drivers 141 Transformers 142 PART III INTERIOR ILLUMINATION
145 14 LIGHT CONTROL 147 Control of Light Direction 147 Glare Control 158
15 LUMINAIRES 163 Housings 163 Light and Glare Control 167 Decorative
Luminaires 199 Emergency and Exit Luminaires 200 16 SUSTAINABLE DESIGN 204
Integrating Light and Architecture 205 Visual Clarity 205 Architectural
Surfaces 209 Task Lighting 214 Ambient Lighting 215 Lighting
Three-Dimensional Objects 219 Balance of Brightness 224 Successful
Solutions 233 17 DESIGN VERIFICATION METHODS 234 Recommended Illuminance
Values 234 Surface Reflectance 236 Illuminance Calculations 237
Postoccupancy Evaluation 247 18 ELECTRICITY AND LIGHTING CONTROLS 249
Principles of Electricity 249 Switch Control 254 Dimming Control 258
Digital Lighting Controls 265 Energy Management Controls 267 19
DOCUMENTATION 268 Construction Documents 268 EPILOGUE 291 APPENDIX 293
REFERENCES 319 GLOSSARY 321 INDEX 331