LIGHT

When an architect finally discovers that light is the central theme of architecture, it is then that he or she begins to understand and starts to become a real architect. Lorenzo Bernini, a magician of light if ever there was one, drew up his own tables to measure light accurately, which were very similar to those now used to calculate structures, Meticulous and precise. There are many kinds of light and this chapter discusses some of them; its direction, horizontal light, vertical light, or diagonal light. The type of light – horizontal, vertical, or diagonal – depends on the position of the sun in relation to the planes that make up the spaces tensed by that light. Deep reflection about light and its infinite possibilities must be the central focus of the architecture of the future.