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UNDERSTANDING LIGHT, NATURAL AND PHOTOGRAPHIC |
Introduction
Building forms, masses, voids and details are all revealed to us by light; without light we can only grope our way round them, and we cannot appreciate their spaces, proportions, scale or perspective without it. So the aesthetic of architecture depends greatly on the handling of light, which carries all the colours we can perceive. Paul Oliver and Richard Hayward, Architecture: An Invitation (Blackwell, 1990).
Our perceptions of how the world should look are dictated by the way we have seen it illuminated by the sun, either directly or as diffuse daylight, since the day we were born. ...
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