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Light Volumes Dark Matters Claudia Dutson ISBN 978-1-907342-24-0 Helen Hamlyn Centre
Light Volumes Dark Matters is the culmina- tion of two years detailed research by Clau- dia Dutson, Helen Hamlyn Centre Research Associate at the Royal College of Arts in London, supported by the Megaman Charity Trust Fund. Dutson’s book looks at the use of artificial lighting in the work environment and ques- tions the current status quo. Her research focuses on the physiological and psychologi- cal experience of interior environments in architecture. In an industry blinkered by targets and regulations, she calls on architects, lighting designers and specifiers to shift their focus from a quanititative to a qualitative lighting approach, remembering that light does more than enable vision. The book is split into two essays, inter- spersed with travelogue-style reports of meetings with inspirational figures from the lighting world. The first chapter, ‘Light Volumes Dark Matters’, explores the differ- ences between our experience of natural light and artificial light. The second, ‘Light Switch, Dark Adaptations’, looks at the technology of delivering and controlling light and it’s affects on the body. Dutson’s thoughtful conclusion, points towards an alternative vision for artificial lighting of the built environment, encourag- ing the creation of lighting schemes that consider – and allow for - the subjective ex- perience of individual users within a space.
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Beijing Sarah Morris Architecture on Film 86 min
Pic: Anja Jahn
Celebrated artist Sarah Morris’s latest film, recently premiered at the Barbican in London by Architecture on Film, follows her earlier studies of Manhattan, Las Vegas, Miami, Washington and L.A with a glimpse of the Chinese centre of politics and culture at the time of its great global unveiling - the 2008 Olympic Games. Spectacularly seductive, the film operates as a feature length trailer for the megalopolis’s ascension to the global stage, filtering the city’s mass-televised self-portrait into a mesmeric tone-poem in the style of Koyaanisqatsi.
Free of dialogue, an instrumental soundtrack pulses behind a rhythmic succession of images that level the Games’ splendour alongside candid moments of a city in transi- tion and its phantom players; from the President of China preparing for his Olympic address, to a channel-surfing architect Jacques Herzog, and workers packing sweets in a downtown store. Jackie Chan, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster and Henry Kissinger also all make appearances.
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