Kevin McCloud's Principles of Home by Kevin McCloud

Author:Kevin McCloud
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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LIGHTING

Once upon a time people burnt oil in a lamp to see by. Now we burn oil in power stations and consider ourselves very clever for doing so. The electric lamp has given us a welter of different lighting sources (fluorescent, tungsten, halogen and so on) and some very odd-shaped bulbs too, which we can shade, direct, reflect, soften, sharpen and dim in the way we never could an oil lamp or candle.

Task lighting

Task lighting is perhaps the dullest area for your average lighting designer but it is fundamental to human beings. It should light not us, or even the building in particular, but what we do in a building. Task lighting illuminates a corridor to walk down, a picture to look at; it lights work surfaces, the patch of eiderdown where we prop our book in bed, the homework table and the lap on the sofa when we want to read a paper or darn a sock. It should never, by contrast, point at the eye. It is the most important type of lighting.

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