Research Catalog

Title

Architectural lighting for commercial interiors / Prafulla C. Sorcar.

Author

Sorcar, Prafulla C.

Publication

New York : Wiley, ©1987.

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Details

Description

xii, 249 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

Provided here are the fundamentals of lighting for design professionals, placing particular emphasis on the relationship between lighting and important emotional and aesthetic factors.

Subject

• Lighting, Architectural and decorative
• architectural lighting

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Foundation -- Light Story -- Light and Vision -- Seeing Color -- Engineering Tools -- Light Sources and Accessories -- Measurement of Light -- Lighting Calculations -- Short-Cut Methods of Lighting Calculations -- Lighting Layout: Perspective Drawing -- Electrical Circuiting, Calculations, Presentation -- Principles of Lighting Control -- Architectural Tools -- Incandescent Luminaires -- Fluorescent Luminaires -- High Intensity Discharge Luminaires -- Lighting Patterns and Forms -- Human Reaction to Light -- Human Reaction to Color and Applications -- Environmental Impression -- Application: Office Environment -- Task Lighting -- Ambient Lighting -- Task /Ambient Lighting -- Perimeter Lighting -- Office Environment: Room-by-Room Analysis -- Merchandising Environment -- Sign and Show-Window Lighting -- Store Lighting.

ISBN

• 0471011681
• 9780471011682

LCCN

87002210

OCLC

• ocm15220723
• 15220723
• SCSB-1173216

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library