LUCE 342 | PREVIEW
342
Year 60
December 2022
Magazine founded by AIDI in 1962
Editor-in-chief Silvano Oldani
In this issue:
EDITORIALS 60 YEARS
Who lives in light crosses the darkness
by Silvano Oldani
“A new light shines” title of the editorial on n. 294 of LUCE dated 2011. Historical magazine
founded by AIDI in 1962, two years after the establishment of the same association in 1960. “Magazine – writes, at that time the director, – “to spread light culture in our country over the post-war reconstruction and economic boom years. By then, the industrial and urban development in Europe, and the theme of lighting, in large cities, represented a significant and a cultural social challenge … this edition of LUCE, taking up the historical numbering from 1962 and its first number of 50 pages directed by Piero Anfossi, is presented today to its readers with the number 294 deeply renewed, but always well anchored in its history”
EDITORIALS 60 YEARS
Not only measure bau also illuminate
by Piero Castiglioni
For millennia, sunlight has illuminated human life, aided, after sunset, by the flame or torches, candles, and oil lamps. Its emission spectrum is the most recognizable and comfortable to our eyes, and its presence has a beneficial influence on the mood of human day, and, to this day, it conditions the daily cycle of waking and sleeping in modern metropolises. The first technological evolution – with respect to the flame – in artificial lighting is very recent and dates to 1879 when T.A. Edison, with the improvement of the carbon filament lamp
EDITORIALS 60 YEARS
Discovering Light Art
by Jacqueline Ceresoli
Who? What? Where? When? How and why? These are the fundamental questions addressed in the Light Art column on Luce, which over time has made clear its expressive and aesthetic potential of a germinating language. Light is the essence of knowledge and imagination and the section Light Art in tracing, number after number, the ways of artificial light to transform in artistic material in the second half of the twentieth century
EDITORIALS 60 YEARS
Telling new languages
by Marcello Filibeck
Among the characteristics that made LUCE establish itself as a reference magazine for the lighting world is its ability to deal critically and openly with change. An approach that stems from the authors’ personalities – who make this magazine – and, above all, from the intuition and curiosity of Silvano Oldani, LUCE‘s historic Editor-in-Chief, who passed away just when this special issue was about to get printed. During our first meeting in 2017, he proposed that I run a new column, which we will have called Showtime
Manifesto of light
by Mariella Di Rao
The Manifesto of Light promoted by the Italian Lighting Association (AIDI) is born to “shed light” on critical issues and opportunities for the industry
Over the past few years, AIDI has set itself the strategic goal of determining the dissemination of increasingly authoritative content in line with the changes in the social, cultural and economic context in order to create and communicate a culture of light that can keep up with the issues and challenges imposed on us by technological and digital innovations. A vision that was the basis for the organisation of the 20th National Congress
In LUCE 342.2022 you will find many other articles, special reports, interviews, and insights. We are always on the lookout for new suggestions and ideas to understand, explain and raise awareness of the world of Italian and international lighting. Keep reading and writing to us.
INTERVIEWS
Flos: celebrating 60 years of good design
by Pierluigi Masini
ASSOCIATIONS
Lionel Brunet. Independent and interdependent light
by Monica Moro
FOUNDATIONS
AEM Foundation for the protection and enhancement of history and corporate culture
by Massimo Gozzi
ANNIVERSARY
Tizio, good design wears red
by Monica Moro
SPECIAL REPORT LUX EUROPA
“Lighting at the dawn of a new era”
by Laura Bellia
DESIGNING LIGHT
Settler Land Building. Light as an opportunity to read architecture
by Ruggero Guanella, Francesca Bosello
New Art Museum. Fondazione Luigi Rovati
by Giulia Chinello
Minimalism and integration
by Alessandra Reggiani
The Paolo and Carolina Foundation
by Cristina Ferrari
Smart streetlighting with GPS on board, the compass for efficient service
by Giulia Nisticò
SPECIAL REPORT
The role of design in lighting
by Laura Bellia, Andrea Calatroni
LIGHTING DESIGNERS
The love for your work. Interview with Giorgia Bono
by Marco Nozza
CORRISPONDENCE
“I want to give people a positive emotion, but also showhow to manipulated can be as a human being”. In conversation with Christopher Bauder
by Silvia Eleonora Longo
Light protest – light at the servive of democracy
by Matilde Alessandra
EDUCATION
Brillant lighting workshop in Castelfranco Veneto
by Roberto Corradini
The Master in Lighting Design & Technology of the Politecnico: the 21st edition to be lanched
by Monica Moro
ICONS OF DESIGN
Nessino, a pop lamp
by Monica Moro
SHOWTIME
The audience must be always surprised
by Marcello Filibeck
MUSEUM
The roman domus of Palazzo Valentini: illuminated archaeology underground rooms
by Francesca Cremasco
LIGHT ART
Bruce Nauman’s corridors and rooms of light
by Jacqueline Ceresoli
Olafur Eliasson: watching, listening, partecipating
by Jacqueline Ceresoli
RESEARCH
Vision through emotion
by Alberto Pasetti Bombardella
LUCE’S NOTEBOOK
When light becomes “work of art” in the city
by Martina Ferronato
MAKING OF
CYL. Smart evolution of urban furniture
by Andrea Calatroni
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