The structure of light: Richard Kelly and the illumination of modern architecture edited by dietrich Neumann yale university press: new haven and London

"nocturnal modernism"

p15  from theatre lighting to home    electrification of middle-class family

design of stage lighting     pioneer    Stanley McCandless    "A Syllabus of Stage Lighting" (1931)
                                                                                             "A Method of Lighting the Stage"


light-feeling-mood- theatre
---- Kelly     lighting for ambience


modernism ----continuous space-- glass--lighting

p.60
"Transparency in this context was less about see-through materials or continuous space. Rather, it was an effect that resulted from the extension of visual control over one's property and the creation of volitional space, where the homeowner was witness to his or her power to spontaneously manage appearance. Bridging the long-standing divide between engineers and architects---internalizing the technical knowledge of the former, abandoning the stylistic blinders of the latter,--- Kelly had made of light a plastic, modern medium."



Dietrich Neumann
Film Architecture from Metropolis to Blade Runner (Munich/New York: PrestelVerlag, 1996, paperback edition 1999)
Architecture of the Night: The Illuminated Building (Prestel Publishing, Munich, New York, November 2002)