Light and polyrhythm in a nordic context

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PhD course description:
Among Nordic architects there is a tradition for strongly believing that the qualities of daylight in architecture have a special and highly estimated role. Both from a cultural point of view as well as an aesthetic approach the daylight is pinpointed as one of the essential parameters in architectural design
together with a ‘sense’ of place, the inclusion of materiality and the focus on human scale. The course present various methodologies to explore, describe and communicate architectural daylight design and humans’ experience of daylit spaces. Daylight is a multifaceted topic that can be analysed through a diversity of disciplines. The course questions how daylight is described. Is it in relation to the geometrical architectural form? In relation to perception? In relation to the construction technology? In relation to a philosophical approach or a cultural meaning of light? These discussions will be unfolded through an interdisciplinary series of lectures by highly esteemed architects, architecture theorist and philosophers. Through these lectures a broad approach to describing
daylight is presented. Followed by reading of relevant texts and discussions between the lecturer and the students.
The aim of the course is to present a diversity of methodologies investigating daylight design in general and more specifically daylight design in a Nordic context.
The course reaches out to PhD students from design and architecture, technical sciences, engineers, and from philosophy, humanities, and social sciences.

Periode	5 okt. 2022
Sted for afholdelse	Light in Architecture and Design
Grad af anerkendelse	International