Daylighting Design Methods: History and Modernity

Abstract

The article is devoted to the emergence and development of methods for calculating of daylighting. The emergence of mathematical, graphical, and instrumental methods of dimension and calculation of daylighting is shown in chronological order. The authors of these methods are named. Attention is paid to modern computer methods of calculation as well as of students’ light and engineering teaching process at different time intervals. The path that science has gone from choosing the size of light apertures in buildings by empirical methods and misunderstanding the need for accurate calculations of daylighting for people’s life and performing various functions to computer illumination modelling, the obligation to teach calculation methods to students of architectural and construction specialties is shown. The review covers the period from the end of the XIX century to the present day.