TY - JOUR
TI - Between history and contemporarity – on the changing role of light in contemporary architecture
AU - Skaza, Maciej
TI - Between history and contemporarity – on the changing role of light in contemporary architecture
AB - 
	Architecture has existed for thousands of years and light is its constant companion. However, it is the contemporary space that offers sensations non-existent before. It is difficult to underestimate the significance of the oculus in the interior of the Pantheon, the sequence of shadows on the striae of the Greek column, or – the more recent – darkness inside the chapel in Ronchamp, where the light is seeping through the embrasures in the coloured windows. Yet the darkness in the interior of the Jewish Museum, the luminous cruciform cut into the façade of the Church of the Light or the transparent body of the Fondation Cartier all clearly indicate that in modern architecture light also plays a role different from that given to it formely, at the time when cathedrals were white. It consists in the difference between closed and open, between the impenetrable wall and the transparency of the curtain wall. Along with the new language of the forms of contemporary architecture, the “light” on/in the building and our reception of the structure have also changed. And yet, despite the changes, architecture still remains “the masterly, correct and magnificent play of forms assembled in the light”.
VL - 2017
IS - 20/2017
PY - 2017
SN - 1731-2442
C1 - 2543-8700
SP - 105
EP - 111
DO - 10.4467/25438700SM.17.053.7674
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/between-history-and-contemporarity-on-the-changing-role-of-light-in-contemporary-architecture