Light & Engineering 31 (2)

Volume 31
Date of publication 04/14/2023
Pages 92–100

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Daylighting of Buildings and Structures of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages L&E, Vol.31, No.2, 2023

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 history of the development of human civilization shows us how the use of daylight could influence the development of world architecture. In the article, the author tried to show how in different epochs daylighting influenced not only civil architecture, but also how light becomes an important sacred component of cult architecture, starting from Ancient Egypt and ending with Christian and Islamic architecture. The article examines the influence of daylight on architecture throughout history, determines the relationship of philosophical aspects, religion and worldview views in certain historical periods and architectural techniques using daylighting.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33383/2023-016

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