This publication provides both a critical approach and conceptual framework for understanding architectural lighting design.  As such, it is necessary to underscore two vital issues specific to the methodologies of this proposed book.  The first concerns disciplinary practices: Lighting design is a field relevant to many disciplines including but not limited to stage design, light art, and electrical engineering.

Second, it must be noted that this publication provides a particular approach to the profession that has been garnered through the author’s personal experiences in the field and through his relationship with architects and collaborators.  With respect to this focus, the methods of lighting design examined here are not to be considered exhaustive.

Together, the analytical deconstruction of the visual principles of light explained both through imagery and words, and the imaginative insight of collaborators who have garnered the power of light to render actual built environments will provide new theoretical insight in the field of architectural lighting design.

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