Designing with S.
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This book focuses on the role stone can play in making exceptional architecture. Working on the principle that the continued evolution of stone buildings will lead to architecture possessing a full and consistent meaning for our times, the author strives to take advantage of current methods for fabrication and installation - along with existing ones.
In the past the focus of urban illumination has been purely functional. This book is a treatise on the work of Kaoru Mende+Lighting Planners Associates, a Japanese firm, which purposely creates spaces to leave a lasting impression through the use of light and shadow. This fascinating full colour book explores the use of light from many different aspects; from the sensuous through to the pragmatic sequencing of place and time not forgetting, of course, its relationship to the natural environment. This is a very different sort of book, full of practical and innovative ideas.