Daylight as Form

The slide library of the Design V studio: 117 ways architecture has shaped light in the dense city, from the Roman atrium to the winter garden. Every slide is classified twice — by its formal family and by its culture of light. Sort the table; pull a slide to project it.

Let There Be Light · ARC 523F, UT Austin School of Architecture · Fall 2026 · Daniel Koehler

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117 slides

Plates generated with Nano Banana 2 from the studio's research dossier Daylight as Form; every image's prompt is logged in the studio repository. Facts trace to the dossier; entries marked unverified await a primary source.

Each projected slide carries its study in two registers: a portrait — a synthetic section photograph under one true sun, furnishing and figures illustrative — and an instrument — sun patches ray-cast in the section plane from the stated profile angles, computed, not drawn.

Let There Be Light · Design V · UT Austin School of Architecture · Fall 2026