The document discusses light and shadow. It explains that light travels in a straight line and faster than anything else. Shadows are formed when light is blocked, and there are core, cast, and form shadows. Light and shadow are important in architecture and can transcend function by creating atmosphere. The document quotes several people emphasizing how light, shadow, and space are essential elements that people need, and that the variety and beauty of life comes from the interplay of light and shadow.
17. LIGHT SHADOW SPACE
All material in nature, the
mountains and the streams and the
air and we, are made of Light which
has been spent, and this crumpled
mass called material casts a
shadow, and the shadow belongs to
Light.
- Louis Kahn
21. LIGHT SHADOW SPACE
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men
need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
- Le Corbusier
22. All the variety,
All the charm,
All the beauty of Life
is made up of Light and Shadow
- Anna Karenina