What is light for architects?

A book with multiple voices, Qu'est-ce que la lumière pour les architectes? brings together 50 eclectic reflections, deeply linked to the profession of architect. In a very personal, sometimes committed and always inspiring way, each one evokes his or her relationship to light.

An inseparable element in the design and realization of architectural projects, light reveals and shapes them - shapes itself - in terms of form, materials, lighting, openings, etc. It can be transformed or left raw and unadulterated. It is multiple and complete, and has inspired all the authors brought together by Archibooks to discuss it.

L'Atelier Franck Boutté addresses the subject of light through the FLJ, the daylight factor. While the FLJ appears to be a multi-scalar and transversal indicator by analyzing the components of the urban form, right down to the interior design of buildings, it nevertheless poses a problem of standardization, by taking into account only one light, for both north and south.

Atelier Franck Boutté therefore advocates an upstream process, complementing this daylight factor, which would question the city as a process of transformation of resources, i.e. the quantities of natural and artificial light.