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Weekly Schedule:
Lecture Handouts:

Week 1: Course Introduction

Lighting Design Book Resources (PDF)
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Course Syllabus
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What is Light? lecture notes
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RS Lighting Design Project Presentation
Week 2: Seeing Light


Awareness Test (have your friends take this online video test):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4
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"Seeing Light?" Lecture Notes
 
Video: Human Senses - Vision
- Summary handout and Online version

Week 3: Making Light 1



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Making Light 1 Lecture Notes
 
 

Week 4: Making Light 2

Lecture Links

  • Should There Be a Ban of Incandescent Lamps?
  • What To Do When You Break a Fluorescent Lamp
  • A Must Watch Movie: The Great Global Warming Swindle - movie on the opposite opinion
  • ABC News - Challenging Conventional Views About Global Warming
  • A “global warming” scare campaigns using or directed to children - the Sky Is Not Falling:
    • Tick Tick Tick
    • Train Ad
    • Youth Speak

  
 
 
Week 5: Assignment One Presenation
  
 
 
Week 6:  Light In Architecture

Optional Reading: Light Revealing Architecture, Author: Marietta S Millet (if you would like to purchase the book via Amazon... Click Here)

- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three

Optional Reading: Richard Kelly, Layers of Light

Links:
- About Richard Kelly - www.richardkellygrant.org
- About the Richard Kelly Grant - www.iesnyc.org/RichardKelly.aspx


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Light in Architecture
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Assign Two - Canvas
 
Week 7: Daylight

Light and Health Links:
  • Light-Cancer Connection - Prevention Magazine
  • Photoimmunology - medical white paper on Light and Health
  • Blue LED's - A Health Hazard? - usefull referenced links in the article


Solar Links:

  • Pilkington Sun Angle Calculator
  • Shadowspro.com - Sundial program

 
 
 

Spring Break
Week 8: Light Fixtures


Links:

Manufacture Search Site: www.LIGHTSEARCH.com
Product Search and Spec Creation Site: www.ELUMIT.com


Decorative Links:

- www.LIGHTOLOGY.com
- www.UNICAHOME.com
www.LUMENS.com
www.TRIBU-DESIGN.com
www.ARCHITONICA.com
www.1STDIBS.com
www.BELACORPRO.com

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Distributions and Light Fixtures Lecture Notes
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Field Trip Instructions
 
Week 9: Showroom Field Trip
- meet at showroom per schedule



 
Week 10: Assignment Presentations and Lighting Applications Part 1
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Ltg Applications 1 Lecture Notes
 
 
Week 11: Lighting Applications Part 2

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Ltg Applications 2 Lecture Notes
 
 
Week 12: Design Process 1: Lighting Documentation


Misc

- IESNA Symbols Guide

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Rendering Light and Documentation Lecture Notes
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Lighting Layout Lecture Notes
 
Assignment Three
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Assigment Three Description
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Option C Project: Office Loft CAD Plans (zipped)
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Option C Project: Office Loft PDF Plans and Elevations
Week 13: Design Process 3: Lighting Specifications


Links

- IALD Specification Guildines
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Specifications Lecture Notes
 
 
Week 14: Design Process 2: Lighting Math
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Math Lecture Notes
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Math Supplement