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NORDIC LIGHT & COLOUR
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ABSTRACT
Daylight has always been a key consideration for architects,
albeit one where the skills for effecting good daylighting design
were more art than science. Until recently however daylight
was something of a ‘Cinderella’ discipline as far as the wider
building engineering community were concerned. That is, gen-
erally well-regarded, but not taken too seriously. That has has
changed in the last decade or so with a deeper understanding
of the benefits to occupants provided by a well-daylit environ-
ment. New methods of quantifying and evaluating the daylight-
ing provision of a space has led to a reconsideration of the way
that daylighting science is taught to architecture students. This
article is intended to contribute to that discourse.
Daylighting science: A brief survey and
suggestions for inclusion in the
architectural curriculum
John Mardaljevic