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| Chapel of St. Ignatious, Seattle University, 1997 |
My students are
working on a design project exploring natural daylight. So naturally I am reading Steven Holl to get
in the mood. I am going to save some
quotes here to be used later.
“Transmitting
the force and spiritual power of daylight has been a core aim of our
architecture for forty years. The
perceptual spirit and metaphysical strength of architecture are driven by the
quality of light and shadow shaped by solids and voids, by opacities and transparencies
and translucencies. What the eyes see and
the senses feel in relation to architecture is formed according to conditions
of light and shadow. Natural light, with
its ethereal variety of changes, fundamentally orchestrates the intensities of architecture
and cities.”
Steven Holl,
Compression
“Light is the
main thing. Light is a natural
phenomenon the complexity of which reveals the structure of human consciousness. Objects, including buildings, in their absorption
and reflection of light, simulate a human brain’s neural networks, in effect
activating the brain. The more complex
and nuanced the stimulation, the more fully the brain comes to life”
Lebbeus Woods
(from Steven Holl’s book Compression)
