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Daylight is Essential to Architecture 2

October 24, 2017 Martin Leave a comment

Architecture has been devised, from its beginnings, as a response to daylight’s particular qualities: its colors, its variability due to…

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Daylight is Essential to Architecture 1

October 13, 2017 Martin Leave a comment

It is essential in much the same way that structure is essential to architecture.  We need structure to enable us…

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An Animation of Daylight in the Light Wells of Alvar Aalto’s Viipuri Library at Noon on June 23

July 21, 2017 Martin Leave a comment

Alvar Aalto – Viipuri Libary 3D View Top June 23 Solar Study 2 (Converted)   Animation created by Corbin Patten Building…

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Fort York National Historic Site

December 4, 2015 Martin Leave a comment

The lobby of the new visitors’ center by Patkau Architects is elegant, as one would expect from this firm.  Southern…

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Eero Saarinen’s Chapel

October 24, 2015 Martin 1 Comment

Daylight sneaks into Eero Saarinen’s chapel on the Concordia College campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana, through two breaks in its…

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Light in Gunnar Asplund’s Public Library

October 4, 2015 Martin 1 Comment

I delivered a presentation about Gunnar Asplund’s Stockholm Public Library and Asplund’s use of daylight to generate the building design.…

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Zaha Hadid’s Broad Museum

June 4, 2013 Martin Leave a comment

  The Eli and Edythe Broad Museum East Lansing It has been suggested that Zaha Hadid’s Broad Museum in East…

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Can Lis: Form and Performance

February 13, 2013 Martin Leave a comment

One of Utzon’s most important works is a house he designed for himself and his family near Petro Porto on…

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Noon in Fairbanks, Alaska

November 23, 2012 Martin Leave a comment

The sun at noon in Fairbanks, last week: a little low in the sky. The sun came up around 8:30…

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Mansueto Library, The University of Chicago

August 20, 2012 Martin Leave a comment

The Joe + Rika Mansueto Library (Helmut Jahn, Murphy / Jahn, 2011) at the University of Chicago is very much…

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