The poetics of light in architecture: Light as architecture form

Abstract

The poetics of light may be defined as the deliberate manipulation of light in the creative act of architecture. To the same extent that spatial concepts have conformed to specific paradigms throughout the history of architecture, light and its articulation have been encoded with meaning peculiar to a defined period. Light in architecture can be qualified and investigated as an artefact, a fundamental element of the language of architecture, subject to the same rationale that determines the other elements of that language.