Light is truly a designer’s medium. It is among the most powerful tools we have to affect change in how we perceive and experience the environment around us. Light belongs as a controllable tool of space design, just as form, scale, and material do. Light translates vision and it is vision that gives us a substantial portion of our experiences. 

This book delivers a unique training that makes designing with light an intuitive visual process that can deliver a whole new appreciation for the capabilities of architecture and design. Here, one will find a procedure for developing design ideas and the visual tools for translating those ideas. A designer armed with this type of understanding will be inspired and well-equipped to enrich the designed environment through the creative application of lighting design.

This knowledge is for architects, landscape architects, interior designers,planners and lighting designers aspiring to develop intuition and confidence in designing with light. It is these people who are responsible for bringing organization and emotional experience to the environments we interact with every day. The concepts and processes put forth in this book are intended to be immediately useful to any designer who wants to include light as an ally in design.