Light & Engineering 29 (5)

Volume 29
Date of publication 10/18/2021
Pages 73–81

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Luminaires and the History of the Development of Artificial Lighting in Russia L&E, Vol. 29, No. 5 (1), 2021

Articles authors:

Kirill A. Solovyov

Kirill A. Solovyov, Ph. D. of Cultural Studies, Associate Professor of the Department of Architectural and Construction Design and Construction Physics of the NRU MGSU was born in Moscow on July 9, 1966. In 1983 he entered, and in 1989 graduated from the Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute /now RSUH. From 1983 to 2001 he worked in the State Museums of the USSR and the Russian Federation, the State Historical Museum, the A.V. Shchusev State Research Museum of Architecture, the Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art by Andrey Rublev. In 2010, he defended his Ph. D. thesis in the Dissertation Council of the State Academy of Slavic Culture. Since 2001, he has been teaching. Since 2007, he has been teaching at NRU MGSU at the Department of Architectural and Construction Design and Environmental Physics. He is also an associate professor of the Department of History and Theory of Decorative Art and Design of the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts. His research interests are cult architecture, the history of world religions, the basics of architecture and the history of the development of building structures

Abstract:

The article is devoted to luminaires and the history of the development of artificial illumination. As you know, light is one of the human needs. At all stages of the development of human civilization, people have thought about how to use artificial light source if there is not enough daylight. That is why man constantly invented and improved certain light source, the framings of which we now call lighting device or luminaires. The stages of development and improvement of luminaires are a matter of separate serious scientific research. In this article, we are talking about how the development of lighting devices took place in different periods. In different epochs, luminaires corresponded to certain traditions and aesthetic views of certain architectural styles. That is why in his article the author pays great attention not only to the appearance of the described luminaires, but also to its architectural environment.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33383/2021-077

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