Course: The language of light
Discover the fundamentals of lighting knowledge. Learn how light works, shapes perception, and creates visual comfort. Explore how light makes architecture clearer and more tangible. Understand the language of light.
The way we perceive light has a decisive influence on how we perceive and experience spaces. Hard light models forms, emphasises textures, and creates clear contrasts. Diffused light, by contrast, produces a calm, soft brightness and makes spaces feel open. In this course you will deepen your understanding of perception, light direction, and light quality, and discover how to apply this knowledge specifically to lighting design.
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Light – learning from nature
Sunlight and cloud cover as a model: how diffused and direct light differ – and how both types of light work in architecture.
Light perception
Seeing is not the same as perceiving: why light from above is evolutionarily rooted in us and how it still shapes our perception of space today.
Diffused light
What is diffused light? Definition & effect
Hard light
What is meant by hard light? Definition and effect