Lisa Heschong is an architect and founding principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (HMG), a building sciences consulting firm, where she led groundbreaking research showing a relationship between daylight and student test scores, retail sales, and office worker performance. Heschong is the author of the classic Thermal Delight in Architecture, along with many technical publications about daylighting and energy effi ciency in buildings. A graduate of UC Berkeley and MIT, she is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), and received the ARCC 2012 Haecker Award for Architectural Research. Heschong lives in Santa Cruz, California, with her husband, two horses, and a sailboat, where she never tires of watching the changing colors of the surrounding ocean and sky.

Introduction Part 1: Prediction 1. Planetary Rhythms 2. Chronobiology and Human Health 3. The Evolving and Aging Eye 4. The Predictive Brain 5. Attention and Insight Part 2: Perception 6. Learning to See 7. Patterns of Daylight Illumination 8. Designing with Daylight 9. Elements of View Part 3: Motivation 10. Daylighting Education 11. Selling Daylight 12. Enduring Urban Forms 13. The Value of View 14. Working with Daylight 15. Healing Daylight Part 4: Meaning 16. Iconic Daylight and Views 17. Visions of Nature 18. Biophilia and Technophilia 19. Synthesis and Next Steps Conclusion Glossary List of Illustrations Notes and References Index Acknowledgements About the Author