Dr. Laura Hollengreen: Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Arizona
Wednesday, September 10, 2025,
3:00-4:00 pm,
ASA Great Room and Zoom
Light is a topic that compels because it extends from the most mundane experiences of daily life to the most profound cultural interpretation: it affects us physiologically and psychologically while also serving to express specific socio-political conditions and intangible cosmological understanding. It facilitates task performance and contributes to fundamental understanding of self and world. We might hypothesize that because light is a central element in perception and memory of place, and in dwelling happily, a worthy building retrains our senses by focusing attention on the creative design of light: it expands our perception of design possibilities for healthy habitation. Laura Hollengreen’s lecture will focus primarily on selected premodern examples of the handling of light in ritual contexts but will adduce a few more recent buildings which both continue and expand upon historical design precedents.
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