The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
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in theirway. as a cathedral. The highly ornatebuildings, and these are the most likely torequire flood liglhting, represent, afterall, merely glorified common sense. Inorder to illuminate them in a commonsense manner, it is necessary to considerbriefly the requirements. Flood lighting, or in fact,… … affair. l)iit we may consider it as beingcomposed of a beam of sunlight and alarge quantity of diflfused cloud ligbt.The sunlight gives sharp edges and shad-ows to a facade, while the cloud lighttills in the shadows and relieves thestrong contrast. Sunlight alone givesharsh contrasts that are…
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