JOURNAL OF THE ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING INSTITUTE OF JAPAN
Online ISSN : 1349-838X
Print ISSN : 0019-2341
ISSN-L : 0019-2341
On the Culture of the Scandinavian Countries(<Special Issue>Scandinavian Life-style, Casual Report of Lighting Culturs)
Tetsuo Yamaya
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2006 Volume 90 Issue 6 Pages 340-358

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Scandinavian design is ahead of the design of the world. I think that the feature of the Scandinavian designs is warmth, functional beauty, organic, simplicity, and humor. And, the concept of indirect lighting was invented in Scandinavia.In this report, the peculiar Scandinavian lighting environment hatched by geographic condition and the weather condition was discussed. In addition, the life style, urban lightscape, foods, architectural history and various cultures in Scandinavia are introduced. As mention above, the urban Lightscape in Scandinavian countries was a good lighting environment that harmonized with a natural environment.
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