Students will learn how to evaluate the lighting strategies in response to various surface finishes, daylighting conditions, and client visibility requirements. We will then move on to increasing our technical vocabulary, investigating the mechanical aspects of lighting controls currently available. Finally, we will become familiar with the documentation necessary to bring the design to reality. A combination lecture and studio format will be utilized, with lectures, projects, guest speakers, videos, field trips, and presentations used to introduce a good range of design methods and topics. Students are to keep all of their collected handouts, class notes, completed assignments, design process drawings and projects in a professionally documented notebook.
Entries are to be legible and of good quality.
No blue ballpoint pens, etc. Black ink, felt tips, or sketching quality pencils and pens only. Tests will be closed book, and will be given within the allotted class time. The study of lighting requires hands-on, visual experiences. Only so much can be understood in the classroom.