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I particularly like the lexicon, but maybe that’s got more to do with me not being an architect, just having to deal with them.
🙂I like bridges too.
I would love the chance light up a bridge, if anyone out there has one they want litInteresting. I might just do that.
I’d be a bit warey(sp?) that a lot of it might be over my head, but what the hell!
Do they embrace non-architects with a vested interest in architecture with open arms, or are they a bit, how can I put this, elitist?When it comes down to it, it’s just a tool.
Whatever you design, if your not much good to begin with, the latest bells and whistles won’t make you good at it. It does, however serve a purpose, Antony Gormleys Angel of the North probably would be known as The Angel flat on its back if it hadn’t been for the boffins/geeks at Newcastle university working out the stresses (and strains) such a structure was going to come accross from exposure to the elements.I agree completely that no architect should have to worry about lux levels, that’s what I do!
That said, if I went about a lighting design from a perspective that just concentrated on the technical aspect, it would be a pretty boring design.
The best working relationships I have with architects are the ones where they throw up their hands, admit that lighting is not what the do and tell me how they want it to look.
(generally I end up coming up with a better concept, but that’s by the by;)
I only ever get into the techie end of things after I have all my concepts/ideas roughed out, and then really only to make sure certain basic lux/glare facter parameters are met and to give the client a pretty picture in the middle of the proposal, I do however always point out that it is only a representation.I’m not entirely sure you get where I’m coming from.
I’m not trying to learn about architecture, I’m just trying to use my imagination and expertise to make it look better, and am wondering why architects I have come accross seem to feel that,tho’ they patently have no idea about how different light sources effect the internal and external appearance of a building, insist on designing the lighting themselves.
As far as 3Ds Max goes, it has little or no relation to the practicalities of lighting design, other than giving an artists impression. I’m not that up on it, but as far as I’m aware it cannot calculate the lux levels, isolines or glare factors that are an integral part of a succesful lighting design.
I’m on your side, I just want to make what you do look better!Oops, sorry, bit of cross posting there.
Most buildings, in my opinion, should look better at night, unfortunately it’s very easy to get sloppy, replacing bulbs of one colour temperature with those of another, and generally not paying any attention to the lighting design, if any exists.
Banging up a clatter of sodium floods is the easy way out, and generally will look like it, as well as contributing greatly to increased levels of light pollution. Sorry if it seems like a rant, it’s just everywhere I go seems to to be doing it better than here, which, frankly, saddens me, and annoys me in equal proportions. Especially when you think of how good some of these builings could look.
Currently I live in Kilcullen, and enjoy very dark skies!errm, so how much study of lighting is involved in becoming an architect. Internal, and external. Personally it amazes me that the level of street lighting can be so bad. It’s not that hard to get right, it’s a fairly basic calculation to get the correct lux levels, assuming you know what you’re doing/using.
I was wondering where it had got to!
He’s a busy fella, managed to suss out the true background of the Ulster flag as well.
http://i.am/jah/request.htmHi!
I’m new (but don’t hold that against me)
Just as a matter of interest, how much practical understanding of lighting is involved in becoming an architect?
Having been a lighting designer in the entertainment industry for twenty odd years I have recently (past couple of years) started doing more architectural lighting, hopefully bringing a bit of entertainment “pazazz” to projects. When trying to land new clients a response I’m faced with a lot of the time is “Oh, the architects look after all that” And on a couple of occasions they’ve made a right pigs ear of it, showing seemingly very little knowledge of different light sources, and the way they work.
(no offence)
