Teaching the history of the vision of light through ages and cultures

摘要

Our vision of light and lighting has a history which can be described through the reading of its representations through ages or cultures. Cultural experience as a basis for defining the quality of light. The lighting designer's vision of light is part of the process of designing the lighting project. It is the result of a synthesis of the respective designer's observations and cultural experience coupled with his own professional knowledge and practice within architectural spaces and the addition of artistic appeal. This synthesis of impressions and experience draws its contents from the individual plus a collective memory of light impressions punctuated with milestones which have been transmitted to us, or even precisely documented and described, throughout the history of related disciplines: architectural lighting, theatre lighting, painting, movies, and photography.