The ongoing paradigm change in regard to the use of energy, its efficient usage and the consumption of resources is giving rise to new light systems and lighting appliances. This development might also lead to the use of light as a building material in its own right, comparable to traditional building materials, making it possible to create light space productions - something that did not seem feasible up to now due to the high cost of energy and of light systems.
The goal of this book is to develop temporary light spaces that re-interpret the existing urban environment on a seasonal basis or over a cycle of several years. As a result, the city will literally appear in a new light. Strollers in the city streets will experience their familiar environment in a new way. Illuminated planes interlacing with planes made by linear fields of light beams will create immaterial material space experiences: still lifes of light within which one can move about and light choreographies that move barely noticeably, creating still lifes in motion.
Current research aims at exploring, imagining and inventing stand-alone spatial structures of light, adding on to and transforming existing spaces, creating a new spatial awareness that may enable people to experience urban space in a different way. Similar to the process of architectural design, where haptic built volumes create interspaces, the light spaces that are currently being de-signed make these interspaces visible and allow urban dwellers
to experience unexpected spatial constellations.publiar.com
The book includes a number of essays relating to the subject: "The architecture of light" (Werner Oechslin), "The Potemkin city" (Adolf Loos), "Glass architecture" (Paul Scheerbart), "Alpine architecture" (Bruno Taut), "The unvisible cities" (Italo Calvino), "Architecture must blaze" (Coop Himmelb(l)au), Light, festival, terror (Michael Batz), "On the social power of light" (Helmut Bien), "Light - loss of darkness" (Manuel Cuadra), "In search for light" (Wolfgang Rang), "Visible and unvisible light" (Andreas Danler), "Light concepts for Frankfurt" (Michael Hootz), "City light: a tool for urban planning" (Roger Narboni), "Urban lighting in China" (Hao Luoxi), "Light for public space" (Susanne Seitinger), Smart city light (Uwe Knappschneider), LED street light (Thomas Erfert) "Sustainable urban lighting" (Mark Burton-Page), "Textile light" (Claudia Lüling), "Transcending borders" (Niels Gutschow), "Light seminar Frankfurt - Shanghai" (Wolfgang Rang), "The earth and the spirit" (Wolfgang Rang), "1981-2016" (Wolfgang Rang).publiarq.com
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