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Lighting by Design is a practical guide structured around a new theoretical approach to the design of lighting for architectural spaces. Christopher Cuttle outlines his unique three-level approach to lighting design in this indispensable text for students and professionals. Through Observation, Visualisation and Realization, the book explains how to envision, develop and produce your own lighting ideas. Architects, interior designers and specialist lighting designers will benefit from a holistic approach to the lighting process, combining technical information with a distinctive design theory. Cuttle begins with the development of observational skills, leading to the ability to visualise architectural spaces in light. The final stage of realising the lighting concept involves application of calculational procedures to develop a technical lighting specification. The text includes practical advice on meeting design specifications and contractual obligations. There is also a glossary of technical terms and symbols, and a guide to the calculations that the author uses for quantifying lighting concepts.

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A breath taking tour de force. It knits together seamlessly the perceptual underpinning of lighting design and the nuts and bolts of lighting specification. The International Journal of Lighting Research and Technology One can only urge practitioners and academics to read it, to be inspired by it, to quarrel with it, to transcend it if they can. In that spirit I offer my wish list for the next edition. John A. Lynes, Lighting Research and Technology Anyone looking for a practical guide to architectural lighting will do well to purchase a copy of this book...A good guide to understanding the interaction of light with our surroundings. Lighting & Sound Magazine This is an extremely interesting book, written in a pleasing style. It develops some very useful approaches to the various elements of lighting design... This book brings together the material that relates to the new approach to lighting design which has been developed over the past few decades and which is enthusiastically promoted by some designers. It makes an outstanding contribution to the subject. Robert Bean, author of Lighting Engineering This book is aimed at architects, lighting designers and building services engineers with a passion for lighting. There is a lot of good stuff on visual perception, complete with the obligatory MC Esher pictures Lighting Equipment News a great read... will be invaluable to serious lighting students and lighting designers. Professor Warren Julian in 'Lighting' journal (IESANZ) This book provides an excellent addition to the lighting design library. Professional Lighting Design Magazine Christopher Cuttle has prepared an excellent book which, as the title suggests, makes the point that a good lighting design does not happen by coincidence or through the implementation of the latest lighting software; rather it is the result of a deliberate and precise science. New Zealand Architecture, January/February 2004 The writing and presentation make the technologies of light much more approachable than in many existing texts. It also provides a valuable teaching source . Professional Lighting Design The latest book by Kit Cuttle provides a very comprehensive overview of key lighting related topics including vision, characteristics of lighting and visual perception and, finally, summary of the lighting design procedures. Here, not only technical procedures applied in lighting design are discussed in detail, but also the whole range of inspirational subjects related to art and architecture. - Society of Light and Lighting Newsletter Cuttle's determination to cover all environmental issues, that each lighting design practitioner needs to be aware of, has produced a very successful addition to the lighting library giving the invaluable reference point for various subjects in lighting and a very interesting and useful read. - Society of Light and Lighting Newsletter

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Christopher Kit Cuttle is currently Senior Lecturer in Architectural Technology at the University of Auckland. From 1957 he worked as a specialist architectural lighting designer and advisor, and since 1976 he has been lecturing on the subject in New Zealand, the UK and the US. He holds qualifications in illumination, electrical engineering and architecture, and has published 100 papers and articles on lighting.

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