CONTENTS Illustration credits vi Acknowledgements viii Introduction: Daylighting in the era of electricity 1 1 Speaking of light, speaking with light: Le Corbusier's 'carnets de recherche patiente', Une Petite Ma/son and La Chapelle de Ronchamp 9 2 Desert tent: Light and geometry in the church of the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Las Condes, Santiago de Chile 35 3 Deciding the colouring of things: Scarpa's Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice 57 4 Reading light at Seinajoki, Finland, and Viana do Castelo, Portugal: Aalto's and Siza's conspicuous conservation of daylight 77 5 Enlightening conversation: The Music Room and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile 105 6 Seeing the light: The Poole House, Lake Weyba, Queensland 131 James Bichard, ed. Mary Ann Steane 7 O'Donnell and Tuomey's lessons in the history and geography of light: The Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School, Dublin, 1998 151 8 Inverse light? The vulnerable openings of Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Berlin 171 9 New light for old across London: Recent interventions at the Carmelite Priory, Kensington, by Niall McLaughlin, and at 1A John Campbell Road, Hackney, by Lisa Shell 193 10 The electricity of daylight? Herzog and De Meuron's excavation of dusk at London's Bankside Power Station, 1998-2000 221 Index 243