Designing With Light, by award-winning architect Victoria Meyers, explores the myriad ways in which light is used in contemporary architecture, both internally and externally, to enhance the design and sense of space in a building. Vivid color photographs depict how architects employ light in buildings such as the Guggenheim Las Vegas and the National Gallery of Canada. Meyer looks at recent developments in the science of light, giving an overview of the history of light in architecture and demonstrating how the use of light in film, theater, and art has influenced light’s use in architecture. Meyers goes on to discuss how light creates architectural features such as color, line, and form, and how architects strive to control light through glass, windows, skylights, and the manipulation of shadow and reflection. She clearly illustrates these cases with intriguing examples from recent buildings designed by internationally renowned architects including Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, John Pawson and many others. Meyers’ lively, informative text and hundreds of rich color photographs are sure to fascinate those interested in architecture and design.
Victoria Meyers was born in Abilene, Texas, and studied Art History and Civil Engineering at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. (undergraduate) and received her Master's Degree in Architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Victoria is a founding partner of hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa). Victoria's firm has received numerous design awards, including the McDermott Award from MIT for Design Excellence, numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects, and numerous Progressive Architecture Awards.
hMa has designed award-winning houses, public buildings, and master plans. hMa is known for their expertise in Green design, including the new Battery Park City Community Center that the firm is building adjacent to Ground Zero in New York City, which is headed for a Platinum LEED Rating, the highest level of green certification. hMa's architectural practice has included projects as small as award-winning furniture (WaterFall Table, designed in 2007, is in the permanent collection of DUNE furniture); apartments (Ash 4Ways); houses (Holley House); public buildings (Pratt Pavilion); and large-scale master plans (hMa's master plan for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood was honored with the 2010 Heritage Award from the Urban Land Institute), in recognition of the plan's implementation of the most up-to-date green technologies.
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