Designing a Quality Lighting Environment

Extensively updated, this Second Edition examines the technical, practical, and aesthetic aspects of lighting design. With its focus on quality and the effect and interrelationship of light on space, it demonstrates how interior designers, architects, and lighting designers provide functional, safe, and aesthetically pleasing design solutions for residential and commercial interiors. Winchip integrates current sustainable and energy efficient developments in the profession and provides readers with an understanding of the interrelationshp of light and space from an introduction to lighting systems to their most complex commercial problems. The comprehensive text begins with the principles of good and sustainable lighting practice and builds on this foundation, applying design principles to lighting projects.