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Designing a Quality Lighting Environment

Susan M. Winchip
  • ©2005
  • 786 Pages
  • full color | hardcover | 8 x 10
  • 978-1-56367-317-7
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This comprehensive text examines the technical, practical, and aesthetic aspects of lighting design. With its focus on quality, it demonstrates how lighting designers provide functional, safe, and aesthetically pleasing designs for both residential and commercial interiors. The author's extensive research integrates new developments in the field with an introduction to lighting systems, giving readers a foundation for applying design principles to lighting projects.
  • Human factors associated with lighting, including the needs of special populations; the effects of lighting on health, productivity, and behavior; and spatial interpretations
  • Issues in energy conservation, "green design," lighting pollution, light trespass, and international implications
  • Case studies demonstrating the best practices for lighting design in residential and commercial fields
  • Design projects, exercises, and assignments to reinforce text material
  • Appendices including lighting guides, shapes of lamps, spectral power distribution curves, beam spread charts, lighting documents, candlepower distribution graphs, Internet resources, lighting manufacturers, lighting suppliers, and professional organizations

Instructors Resources
  • Instructor's Guide
  • PowerPoint® Presentation
Principles of Lighting
  • Introduction to Lighting
  • Lighting Environments
  • Lighting Systems: Electrical Sources
  • Lighting Systems: Lamps for Special Applications
  • Color
  • Directional Effects of Lighting
  • Quantity of Light
  • Electricity
  • Lighting Systems: Luminaires
  • Lighting Systems: Controls
  • Portable Luminaires and Styles of Fixtures
  • Energy and the Environment
  • Illumination and Human Factors

Lighting Design Applications
  • Safety and Security
  • Illuminating Visual Art
  • Light Art
  • Light and Interior Architecture
  • Inspirational Mediums
  • Case Studies: Residential and Commercial Applications

Lighting Design Process
  • Initial Phases
  • Design Phases
  • Final Phases

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Susan M. Winchip , LEED AP, MIES, IDEC, is a Professor Emerita of Interior and Environmental Design in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Illinois State University. She has over 20 years of experience designing residential, corporate, and institutional interiors with specialties in lighting and sustainability. She has published monographs and in several academic journals, including Journal of Interior Design Education and Research, Kappa Omicron Nu FORUM, Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, Quality in Higher Education, and the College Student Journal. Winchip is winner of the ASID Foundation 2010 Polsky Prize Award for her textbook, Visual Culture in the Built Environment: A Global Perspective (Fairchild).

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