Modern lighting techniques help you showcase and beautify historic buildings! Now you can design better, more efficient illumination for older structures with Lighting Historic Buildings by Derek Philips. You'll know how to incorporate modern lighting into buildings built decades--or centuries--before flourescent bulbs, TV screens, computer monitors and OSHA requirements were invented. Whether you're renovating, refurbishing or expanding an illumination system, lighting historic buildings shows you proven strategies and designs for using both natural and artificial light to achieve outstanding results. Plus, over 200 full color illustrations show you the best lighting solutions for offices, residences, churches, industrial facilities, and change-of-use properties worldwide. Uding the expert techniques you'll find in this one-of-kind resource, you'll see how to provide modern and efficient lighting designs while retaining the original beauty and integrity of historic buildings.

As concern grows over environmental issues and light pollution, this book satisfies a need for a straightforward and accessible guide to the use, design and installation of outdoor lighting. This all-inclusive guide to exterior lighting from the Institution of Lighting Engineers, recognized as the pre-eminent professional source in the UK for authoritative guidance on exterior lighting, provides a comprehensive source of information and advice on all forms of exterior lighting, from floodlighting, buildings and road lighting to elaborate Christmas decorations. Useful to practitioners and non-experts alike, specialists will value the dependable detail on standards and related design, installation and maintenance problems, whilst general professionals can find extensive practical guidance on safety issues, the lighting of hazardous areas and avoiding potential difficulties.

Mechanical/electrical systems, upgraded or installed anew, can have a serious mpact on historic structures and their contents. Since these disciplines are necessary to satisfy building codes and current tenants' requirements, minimum standards of procedure are essential, because, if done insensitively, this work can cause untold aggravation, horrendous cost overruns and even irreversible damage to original design and fabric. Two of these services are especially destructive to the fugitive organic materials found in most pre-1940 properties. They are unbalanced temperature/humidity levels, and light. Obviously, light is necessary to experience all human endeavors, but, whether manmade or natural, it will eventually cause deterioration from infrared and ultraviolet rays. One type of lighting can delay these inevitable effects. That is the completely different concept of glass fiber-optics functional architectural lighting. This paper offers criteria for employing this very energy-efficient, low maintenance, and discreet lighting tool to extend the life of architectural heritage.

The all-inclusive guide to exterior lighting from The Institution of Lighting Engineers, the recognized pre-eminent professional source in the UK for authoritative guidance on exterior lighting.

Since its publication in 1982 Sir Bernard Feilden's Conservation of Historic Buildings has become the standard text for architects and others involved in the conservation of historic structures. Leading practitioners around the world have praised the book as being the most significant single volume on the subject to be published. This third edition revises and updates a classic book, including completely new sections on conservation of Modern Movement buildings and non-destructive investigation. The result of the lifetime's experience of one of the world's leading architectural conservators, the book comprehensively surveys the fundamental principles of conservation in their application to historic buildings, and provides the basic information needed by architects, engineers and surveyors for the solution of problems of architectural conservation in almost every climatic region of the world. This edition is organized into three complementary parts: in the first the structure of buildings is dealt with in detail; the second focuses attention on the causes of decay and the materials they affect; and the third considers the practical role of the architect involved in conservation and rehabilitation. As well as being essential reading for architects and others concerned with conservation, many lay people with various kinds of responsibility for historic buildings will find this clearly written, jargon-free work a fruitful source of guidance and information.

A money-saving handbook for all who care for and maintain church buildings, this practical and comprehensive guide provides expert advice from a leading church architect and an experienced heritage buildings specialist. They also show how church buildings can be tools for contemporary mission, packed with potential for community engagement.

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians’ safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts on street, path, and park aesthetics and neighborhood sense of place. Providing clear, basic technical background (accessible to non-engineers), the book focuses especially on planning and policy concerns. It covers the fundamentals of lighting technology; benefits, costs, and possible adverse impacts of lighting enhancements; traditional and innovative approaches; planning and policy documents and practices; aesthetics and placemaking; and technology trends in lighting design. This book is aimed primarily at practicing transportation planners and engineers, generalist urban planners, safety advocates and researchers, and university students. However, lighting designers and other professionals will also find it useful. It considers how lighting can be coordinated with other potential improvements to enhance the pedestrian environment for better walkability.

"Nighttime exterior lighting is increasing in popularity and importance in cosmopolitan cities and small towns alike. On a grand scale, it can transform a building into a distinctive landmark in the nightscape of a city, highlight the splendid nuances of historical architectural detail, or dazzle through the dramatic sweep of a glittering suspension bridge. At the same time, exterior illumination can work its magic to render an impersonal entryway more intimate and inviting, or it can beckon nighttime shoppers by assuring safety in well-lit retail commercial spaces." "Lighting: Exteriors and Landscapes explores creative solutions to a multitude of challenging and diverse outdoor lighting projects in the United States, Europe and Japan. Included are towering corporate structures, government buildings, hotels, railroad stations, convention centers, shopping malls, parks, plazas and fountains as well as timeless, elegant historical structures. Bold new uses of lighting are also presented, including exciting pattern projections, illuminated works of art and sophisticated laser light shows, choreographed for public enjoyment." "Using today's smaller light sources and less bulky fixtures, designers can achieve results that are both aesthetically pleasing and energy efficient. Quality design reaches beyond function and aesthetics to assure economy, ease of installation and maintenance as well as weatherproofing and vandal resistance. These are among the many important criteria featured throughout this lavishly illustrated professional design reference book. A wellspring of current, cutting-edge ideas in nighttime exterior illumination, Lighting: Exteriors and Landscapes is fully indexed and provides introductory text by renowned lighting professionals J. F. Caminada, editor-in-chief of International Lighting Review, and Motoko Ishii, president of Motoko Ishii Lighting Design Inc."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved