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Architectural lighting design

Index Architectural lighting design

Architectural lighting design is a field within architecture, interior design and electrical engineering that is concerned with the design of lighting systems, including natural light, electric light, or both, to serve human needs. [1]

197 relations: Accent lighting, Active daylighting, AEG turbine factory, Aesthetics, Air conditioning, Alvar Aalto, Arc lamp, Architectural glass, Architectural light shelf, Architecture, Architecture of the night, Architecture-Studio, Astrophysics, Austrian Postal Savings Bank, Bakelite, Bangladesh, Bauhaus, Berlin, Big-box store, Black body, Bollard, Carriageway, Chandelier, Charlotte Perriand, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, Christian Dell, CNN, Color, Color rendering index, Color temperature, Color vision, Compact fluorescent lamp, Computer-aided design, Continuous spectrum, Cost-effectiveness analysis, Cove lighting, David Chipperfield, Daylight, Daylight factor, Daylight harvesting, Deck prism, Dhaka, Digital Addressable Lighting Interface, Dimmer, Eero Saarinen, Eileen Gray, Electric light, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetic radiation, ..., Emergency light, Emergency power system, Energy conservation, Exit sign, Factory, Fagus Factory, Fingerprint, Flash (photography), Flashlight, Floodlight, Fluorescent lamp, France, Gae Aulenti, Garden, Gas lighting, Gas mantle, Gas-discharge lamp, General Motors Technical Center, George Izenour, Glare (vision), Glass House, Great Depression, Greece, Hall, Halogen lamp, Herzog & de Meuron, Horticulture, Hue, Human factors and ergonomics, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, In Praise of Shadows, Incandescent light bulb, Interior design, International Commission on Illumination, Italy, Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, Jean Nouvel, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kelvin, Kerosene lamp, Kimbell Art Museum, Landscape lighting, Laser, Le Corbusier, Light, Light + Building, Light art, Light pollution, Light switch, Light-emitting diode, Lighting, Lighting control system, Lighting for the elderly, List of lighting design applications, Louis Kahn, Louis Poulsen, Louvre Pyramid, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lumen (unit), Lumen method, Luminous efficacy, Mains electricity, Manufacturing, Marianne Brandt, Mean time between failures, Melamine resin, Mercury (element), Metal-halide lamp, Mired, MIT Chapel, Moabit, Monochrome, Motion detector, Musée d'Orsay, Neon lamp, Neues Museum, Nightlight, NPR, OLED, Otto Wagner, Over illumination, Park, Parking lot, Passive daylighting, Passive solar building design, Pendant light, Peter Behrens, PH-lamp, Philip Johnson, Phosphor, Photography, Planck's law, Poul Henningsen, Power cord, Professional Lighting and Sound Association, Professional Lighting Designers' Association, Publishing, Ray Grenald, Rayleigh scattering, Recessed light, Retail, Richard Kelly (lighting designer), Rogier van der Heide, Scattering, Sconce (light fixture), Seagram Building, Seasonal affective disorder, Shadow, Simulation software, Skylight, Smart glass, Sodium-vapor lamp, Speirs and Major Associates, Stanchion, Stanley McCandless, Street light, Sulfur lamp, Sun path, Surface-mount technology, Temperature, The Atlantic, Thermal radiation, Timer, Touch-sensitive lamp, Track lighting, Transom (architectural), Transparency and translucency, Troffer, Uninterruptible power supply, Utility pole, Ventilation (architecture), Videography, Villa Savoye, Visible spectrum, Visual comfort probability, Vivid Sydney, Vyborg Library, Wall-plug efficiency, Walter Gropius, Warehouse, Watt, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, William Fairbairn, X10 (industry standard), Xenon arc lamp, 0-10 V lighting control, 30 St Mary Axe. Expand index (147 more) »

Accent lighting

Accent lighting focuses light on a particular area or object.

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Active daylighting

Active daylighting is a system of collecting sunlight using a mechanical device to increase the efficiency of light collection for a given lighting purpose.

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AEG turbine factory

The AEG turbine factory was built around 1909, at Huttenstraße 12-16 in the Berlin district of Moabit.

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

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Air conditioning

Air conditioning (often referred to as AC, A/C, or air con) is the process of removing heat and moisture from the interior of an occupied space, to improve the comfort of occupants.

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Alvar Aalto

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.

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Arc lamp

An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc).

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Architectural glass

Architectural glass is glass that is used as a building material.

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Architectural light shelf

A light shelf is a horizontal surface that reflects daylight deep into a building.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Architecture of the night

Architecture of the night or nocturnal architecture, also referred to as illuminated architecture and, particularly in German, light architecture, is architecture designed to maximize the effect of night lighting, which may include lights from within the building, lights on the facade or outlining elements of it, illuminated advertising, and floodlighting.

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Architecture-Studio

Architecture-Studio is a French Architecture Practice created in 1973 in Paris.

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Astrophysics

Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that employs the principles of physics and chemistry "to ascertain the nature of the astronomical objects, rather than their positions or motions in space".

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Austrian Postal Savings Bank

The Austrian Postal Savings Bank building (German language: Österreichische Postsparkasse) is a famous modernist building in Vienna, designed and built by the architect Otto Wagner.

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Bakelite

Bakelite (sometimes spelled Baekelite), or polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, is the first plastic made from synthetic components.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.

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Bauhaus

Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Big-box store

A big-box store (also supercenter, superstore, or megastore) is a physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores.

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Black body

A black body is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence.

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Bollard

A bollard is a sturdy, short, vertical post.

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Carriageway

A carriageway (British English) or roadway (North American English) consists of a width of road on which a vehicle is not restricted by any physical barriers or separation to move laterally.

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Chandelier

A chandelier (also known as girandole, candelabra lamp, or least commonly suspended lights) is a branched ornamental light fixture designed to be mounted on ceilings or walls.

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Charlotte Perriand

Charlotte Perriand (24 October 1903 – 27 October 1999) was a French architect and designer.

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Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE; pronounced 'sib-see') is an international professional engineering association based in London that represents building services engineers.

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Christian Dell

Christian Dell (24 February 1893 – 18 July 1974) was a German silversmith.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Color

Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple.

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Color rendering index

A color rendering index (CRI) is a quantitative measure of the ability of a light source to reveal the colors of various objects faithfully in comparison with an ideal or natural light source.

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Color temperature

The color temperature of a light source is the temperature of an ideal black-body radiator that radiates light of a color comparable to that of the light source.

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Color vision

Color vision is the ability of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths (or frequencies) of the light they reflect, emit, or transmit.

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Compact fluorescent lamp

A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light, and compact fluorescent tube, is a fluorescent lamp designed to replace an incandescent light bulb; some types fit into light fixtures designed for incandescent bulbs.

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Computer-aided design

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer systems to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.

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Continuous spectrum

In physics, a continuous spectrum usually means a set of attainable values for some physical quantity (such as energy or wavelength) that is best described as an interval of real numbers, as opposed to a discrete spectrum, a set of attainable values that is discrete in the mathematical sense, where there is a positive gap between each value and the next one.

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Cost-effectiveness analysis

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is a form of economic analysis that compares the relative costs and outcomes (effects) of different courses of action.

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Cove lighting

Cove lighting is a form of indirect lighting built into ledges, recesses, or valences in a ceiling or high on the walls of a room.

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David Chipperfield

Sir David Alan Chipperfield (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect.

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Daylight

Daylight, or the light of day, is the combination of all direct and indirect sunlight during the daytime.

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Daylight factor

In architecture, a daylight factor (DF) is the ratio of the light level inside a structure to the light level outside the structure.

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Daylight harvesting

Daylight harvesting systems use daylight to offset the amount of electric lighting needed to properly light a space, in order to reduce energy consumption.

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Deck prism

A deck prism is a prism inserted into the deck of a ship to provide light down below.

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Dhaka

Dhaka (or; ঢাকা); formerly known as Dacca is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

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Digital Addressable Lighting Interface

Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) is a trademark for network-based systems that control lighting in building automation.

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Dimmer

Dimmers are devices connected to a light fixture and used to lower the brightness of light.

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Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer noted for his neo-futuristic style.

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Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) was an Irish-born French-based architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.

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Electric light

An electric light is a device that produces visible light from electric current.

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Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a professional engineering discipline that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

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Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.

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Electromagnetic radiation

In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EM radiation or EMR) refers to the waves (or their quanta, photons) of the electromagnetic field, propagating (radiating) through space-time, carrying electromagnetic radiant energy.

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Emergency light

An emergency light is a battery-backed lighting device that switches on automatically when a building experiences a power outage.

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Emergency power system

An emergency power system is an independent source of electrical power that supports important electrical systems on loss of normal power supply.

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Energy conservation

Energy conservation is the effort made to reduce the consumption of energy by using less of an energy service.

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Exit sign

An exit sign is a device in a public facility (such as a building, aircraft or boat) denoting the location of the closest emergency exit in case of fire or other emergency.

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Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial site, usually consisting of buildings and machinery, or more commonly a complex having several buildings, where workers manufacture goods or operate machines processing one product into another.

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Fagus Factory

The Fagus Factory (German: Fagus Fabrik or Fagus Werk), a shoe last factory in Alfeld on the Leine, Lower Saxony, Germany, is an important example of early modern architecture.

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Fingerprint

A fingerprint in its narrow sense is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger.

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Flash (photography)

A flash is a device used in photography producing a flash of artificial light (typically 1/1000 to 1/200 of a second) at a color temperature of about 5500 K to help illuminate a scene.

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Flashlight

A flashlight (more often called a torch outside North America) is a portable hand-held electric light.

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Floodlight

Floodlights are broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial lights.

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Fluorescent lamp

A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Gae Aulenti

Gae Aulenti (4 December 1927 – 31 October 2012) was a prolific Italian architect, whose work spans industrial and exhibition design, furniture, graphics, stage design, lighting and interior design.

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Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.

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Gas lighting

Gas lighting is production of artificial light from combustion of a gaseous fuel, such as hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, or natural gas.

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Gas mantle

An incandescent gas mantle, gas mantle or Welsbach mantle is a device for generating bright white light when heated by a flame.

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Gas-discharge lamp

Gas-discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electric discharge through an ionized gas, a plasma.

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General Motors Technical Center

The GM Technical Center is a General Motors facility in Warren, Michigan.

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George Izenour

George Charles Izenour (pronounced I-zen-our), MPhys, AIEEE (July 24, 1912 – March 24, 2007) was an author, educator, designer and leading innovator in the field of theatrical design and technology.

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Glare (vision)

Glare is difficulty seeing in the presence of bright light such as direct or reflected sunlight or artificial light such as car headlamps at night.

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Glass House

The Glass House, or Johnson house, is a historic house museum on Ponus Ridge Road in New Canaan, Connecticut.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Greece

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Hall

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls.

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Halogen lamp

A halogen lamp, also known as a tungsten halogen, quartz-halogen or quartz iodine lamp, is an incandescent lamp consisting of a tungsten filament sealed into a compact transparent envelope that is filled with a mixture of an inert gas and a small amount of a halogen such as iodine or bromine.

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Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,"." Herzog & de Meuron.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the science and art of growing plants (fruits, vegetables, flowers, and any other cultivar).

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Hue

Hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically (in the CIECAM02 model), as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow", (which in certain theories of color vision are called unique hues).

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Human factors and ergonomics

Human factors and ergonomics (commonly referred to as Human Factors), is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the (engineering and) design of products, processes, and systems.

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Illuminating Engineering Society of North America

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) is a non-profit learned society that was founded in New York City on January 10, 1906.

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In Praise of Shadows

is an essay on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author and novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.

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Incandescent light bulb

An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that it glows with visible light (incandescence).

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Interior design

Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space.

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International Commission on Illumination

The International Commission on Illumination (usually abbreviated CIE for its French name, Commission internationale de l'éclairage) is the international authority on light, illumination, colour, and colour spaces.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban

Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban or National Parliament House, (জাতীয় সংসদ ভবন Jatiyô Sôngsôd Bhôbôn) is the house of the Parliament of Bangladesh, located at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.

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Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel (born 12 August 1945) is a French architect.

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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

was one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.

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Kelvin

The Kelvin scale is an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale using as its null point absolute zero, the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases in the classical description of thermodynamics.

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Kerosene lamp

A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene (paraffin) as a fuel.

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Kimbell Art Museum

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library.

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Landscape lighting

Landscape lighting or garden lighting refers to the use of outdoor illumination of private gardens and public landscapes; for the enhancement and purposes of safety, nighttime aesthetics, accessibility, security, recreation and sports, and social and event uses.

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Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Light

Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Light + Building

Light + Building is a biennial architectural design and technology trade fair mainly focused on the fields of lighting, electrical engineering, building automation, and civil-engineering software.

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Light art

Light art or luminism is an applied art form in which light is the main medium of expression.

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Light pollution

Light pollution, also known as photopollution, is the presence of anthropogenic light in the night environment.

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Light switch

In electrical wiring, a light switch is a switch, most commonly used to operate electric lights, permanently connected equipment, or electrical outlets.

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Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.

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Lighting

Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve a practical or aesthetic effect.

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Lighting control system

A lighting control system is an intelligent network based lighting control solution that incorporates communication between various system inputs and outputs related to lighting control with the use of one or more central computing devices.

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Lighting for the elderly

Designing lighting for the elderly requires special consideration and care from architects and lighting designers.

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List of lighting design applications

This is a list of Lighting Design software for use in analyzing photometrics, BIM (Building Information Modeling), and 3D modeling.

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Louis Kahn

Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (– March 17, 1974) was an American architect, based in Philadelphia.

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Louis Poulsen

Louis Poulsen is a Danish lighting manufacturer that was founded in 1874.

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Louvre Pyramid

The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect.

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Lumen (unit)

The lumen (symbol: lm) is the SI derived unit of luminous flux, a measure of the total quantity of visible light emitted by a source.

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Lumen method

In lighting design, the lumen method, (also called zonal cavity method), is a simplified method to calculate the light level in a room.

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Luminous efficacy

Luminous efficacy is a measure of how well a light source produces visible light.

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Mains electricity

Mains electricity (as it is known in the UK; US terms include grid power, wall power, and domestic power) is the general-purpose alternating-current (AC) electric power supply.

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.

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Marianne Brandt

Marianne Brandt (1 October 1893 – 18 June 1983), German painter, sculptor, photographer and designer who studied at the Bauhaus school and became head of the metal workshop in 1928.

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Mean time between failures

Mean time between failures (MTBF) is the predicted elapsed time between inherent failures of a mechanical or electronic system, during normal system operation.

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Melamine resin

Melamine resin or melamine formaldehyde (also shortened to melamine) is a hard, thermosetting plastic material made from melamine and formaldehyde by polymerization.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

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Metal-halide lamp

A metal-halide lamp is an electrical lamp that produces light by an electric arc through a gaseous mixture of vaporized mercury and metal halides (compounds of metals with bromine or iodine).

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Mired

Contracted from the term micro reciprocal degree, the mired is a unit of measurement used to express color temperature.

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MIT Chapel

The MIT Chapel (dedicated 1955) is a non-denominational chapel designed by noted architect Eero Saarinen.

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Moabit

Moabit is an inner city locality of Berlin.

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Monochrome

Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or values of one color.

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Motion detector

A motion detector is a device that detects moving objects, particularly people.

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Musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine.

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Neon lamp

A neon lamp (also neon glow lamp) is a miniature gas discharge lamp.

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Neues Museum

The Neues Museum ("New Museum") is a museum in Berlin, Germany, located to the north of the Altes Museum (Old Museum) on Museum Island.

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Nightlight

A nightlight is a small light fixture, usually electrical, placed for comfort or convenience in dark areas or areas that may become dark at certain times, such as at night or in an emergency.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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OLED

An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is a light-emitting diode (LED) in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compound that emits light in response to an electric current.

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Otto Wagner

Otto Koloman Wagner (13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect and urban planner, known for his lasting impact on the appearance of his home town Vienna, to which he contributed many landmarks.

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Over illumination

Over illumination is the presence of lighting intensity higher than that which is appropriate for a specific activity.

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Park

A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats.

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Parking lot

A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles.

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Passive daylighting

Passive daylighting is a system of both collecting sunlight using static, non-moving, and non-tracking systems (such as windows, sliding glass doors, most skylights, light tubes) and reflecting the collected daylight deeper inside with elements such as light shelves.

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Passive solar building design

In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer.

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Pendant light

A pendant light, sometimes called a drop or suspender, is a lone light fixture that hangs from the ceiling usually suspended by a cord, chain, or metal rod.

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Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a German architect and designer.

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PH-lamp

The PH-lamps are a series of light fixtures designed by Danish designer and writer Poul Henningsen from 1926 onwards.

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Philip Johnson

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect.

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Phosphor

A phosphor, most generally, is a substance that exhibits the phenomenon of luminescence.

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Photography

Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Planck's law

Planck's law describes the spectral density of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a black body in thermal equilibrium at a given temperature T. The law is named after Max Planck, who proposed it in 1900.

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Poul Henningsen

Poul Henningsen (9 September 1894 – 31 January 1967) was a Danish author, critic, architect, and designer, who was one of the leading figures of the cultural life of Denmark between the World Wars.

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Power cord

A power cord, line cord, or mains cable is an electrical cable that temporarily connects an appliance to the mains electricity supply via a wall socket or extension cord.

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Professional Lighting and Sound Association

The Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA) is a trade association based in Eastbourne, United Kingdom.

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Professional Lighting Designers' Association

The Professional Lighting Designers' Association (PLDA), formerly known as European Lighting Designers' Association (ELDA+), is an international association of lighting designers whose work primarily involves them in architectural lighting design.

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Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

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Ray Grenald

Ray Grenald (born 1928) is a significant architectural lighting designer in the United States in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Rayleigh scattering

Rayleigh scattering (pronounced), named after the British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), is the (dominantly) elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.

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Recessed light

A recessed light or downlight (also pot light in Canadian English, sometimes can light (for canister light) in American English) is a light fixture that is installed into a hollow opening in a ceiling.

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Retail

Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit.

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Richard Kelly (lighting designer)

Richard Kelly (1910–1977) was an American lighting designer, considered one of the pioneers of architectural lighting design.

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Rogier van der Heide

Rogier van der Heide (born 1970 in Bennebroek, the Netherlands) is a designer born in the Netherlands who currently lives in Liechtenstein.

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Scattering

Scattering is a general physical process where some forms of radiation, such as light, sound, or moving particles, are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory by one or more paths due to localized non-uniformities in the medium through which they pass.

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Sconce (light fixture)

A sconce is a type of light fixture affixed to a wall in such a way that it uses only the wall for support, and the light is usually directed upwards, but not always.

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Seagram Building

The Seagram Building is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Seasonal affective disorder

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder subset in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year exhibit depressive symptoms at the same time each year, most commonly in the winter.

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Shadow

A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object.

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Simulation software

Simulation software is based on the process of modeling a real phenomenon with a set of mathematical formulas.

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Skylight

Skylights are light transmitting fenestration (elements filling building envelope openings) forming all, or a portion of, the roof of a building's space for daylighting purposes.

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Smart glass

Smart glass or switchable glass (also smart windows or switchable windows in those applications) is a glass or glazing whose light transmission properties are altered when voltage, light or heat is applied.

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Sodium-vapor lamp

A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm.

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Speirs and Major Associates

Speirs + Major is a UK lighting design practice founded by Jonathan Speirs (1958-2012) and Mark Major in 1993.

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Stanchion

A stanchion is a sturdy upright fixture that provides support for some other object.

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Stanley McCandless

Stanley Russell McCandless (May 9, 1897 – August 4, 1967) is considered to be the father of modern lighting design.

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Street light

A street light, light pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path.

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Sulfur lamp

The sulfur lamp (also sulphur lamp) is a highly efficient full-spectrum electrodeless lighting system whose light is generated by sulfur plasma that has been excited by microwave radiation.

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Sun path

Sun path, sometimes also called day arc, refers to the daily and seasonal arc-like path that the Sun appears to follow across the sky as the Earth rotates and orbits the Sun.

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Surface-mount technology

Surface-mount technology (SMT) is a method for producing electronic circuits in which the components are mounted or placed directly onto the surface of printed circuit boards (PCBs).

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Thermal radiation

Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation generated by the thermal motion of charged particles in matter.

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Timer

A timer is a specialized type of clock used for measuring specific time intervals.

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Touch-sensitive lamp

A touch-sensitive lamp is one that is activated by human touch rather than a flip, pushbutton, or other mechanical switch.

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Track lighting

Track lighting is a method of lighting where light fixtures are attached anywhere on a continuous track device which contains electrical conductors.

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Transom (architectural)

In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it.

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Transparency and translucency

In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without being scattered.

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Troffer

A troffer is a rectangular light fixture that fits into a modular dropped ceiling grid (i.e. 2' by 2' or 2' by 4').

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Uninterruptible power supply

An uninterruptible power supply or uninterruptible power source (UPS) is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source or mains power fails.

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Utility pole

A utility pole is a column or post used to support overhead power lines and various other public utilities, such as electrical cable, fiber optic cable, and related equipment such as transformers and street lights.

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Ventilation (architecture)

Ventilation is the intentional introduction of ambient air into a space and is mainly used to control indoor air quality by diluting and displacing indoor pollutants; it can also be used for purposes of thermal comfort or dehumidification.

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Videography

Videography refers to the process of capturing moving images on electronic media (e.g., videotape, direct to disk recording, or solid state storage) and even streaming media.

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Villa Savoye

Villa Savoye is a modernist villa in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France.

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Visible spectrum

The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.

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Visual comfort probability

Visual comfort probability (VCP), also known as Guth Visual Comfort Probability, is a metric used to rate lighting scenes.

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Vivid Sydney

Vivid Sydney is an annual festival of light, music and ideas, held in Sydney.

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Vyborg Library

Vyborg Library (Viipurin kirjasto) is a library in Vyborg, Russia, built during the time of Finnish sovereignty (1918 to 1940-44), before the Finnish city of Viipuri was annexed by the former USSR and its Finnish name was changed to Vyborg by the USSR authorities.

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Wall-plug efficiency

In optics, wall-plug efficiency or radiant efficiency is the energy conversion efficiency with which the system converts electrical power into optical power.

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Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.

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Warehouse

A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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Wilhelm Wagenfeld

Wilhelm Wagenfeld (15 April 1900, Bremen, Germany — 28 May 1990, Stuttgart, Germany) was an important German industrial designer and former student of the Bauhaus art school.

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William Fairbairn

Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick (19 February 1789 – 18 August 1874) was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder.

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X10 (industry standard)

X10 is a protocol for communication among electronic devices used for home automation (domotics).

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Xenon arc lamp

A xenon arc lamp is a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp, an electric light that produces light by passing electricity through ionized xenon gas at high pressure.

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0-10 V lighting control

0–10 V is one of the earliest and simplest electronic lighting control signaling systems; simply put, the control signal is a DC voltage that varies between zero and ten volts.

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30 St Mary Axe

30 St Mary Axe (informally known as the Gherkin and previously as the Swiss Re Building) is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_lighting_design

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