Place: Light First

摘要

At a design challenge event held at iGuzzini's headquarters in Guildford on 9 June, the AJ and lighting specialist iGuzzini asked architects to create a proposal to demonstrate successful integration of light with architecture. Each of the six invited firms -Architecture 00, AY Architects, Erect Architecture RCKa, vPPR Architects and the Office for Subversive Architecture (OSA) - were paired up with a lighting designer to discuss and improve their schemes. iGuzzini contends that the integration of light and architecture is too often considered at the end of a project's design development. If incorporated at an earlier stage, iGuzzini says, light can play a significant role in breaking up and defining space, underscoring a building's angles and curves and increasing public enjoyment of a place.