title: Architecture of the Night: The Illuminated Building
author: Dietrich Neumann
description: "A spectacular and enlightening volume." -- <i>Herman Miller, July 2003</i><br /><br />"More than 300 photos and illustrations (...) capture the enchantments of architectural lighting, past and present." -- <i>The Providence Journal-Bulletin, December 5, 2002</i><br /><br />"The essays are well illustrated with photographs and contemporary postcards. This fine and accessible work(...)is recommended for large collections." -- <i>Library Journal, June 2003</i><br /><br />More than 300 photos and illustrations ... capture the enchantments of architectural lighting, past and present. -- <i>The Providence Journal-Bulletin, December 5, 2002</i><br /><br />The essays are well illustrated with photographs and contemporary postcards. -- <i>Library Journal, June 2003</i>
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  > THE LONG ROOM
  
  > Francesca Kay
  
  > ![](Images/image00153.jpeg)
  
  > > This is for Joseph
  
  > > > We live, as we dream – alone …
  
  > > JOSEPH CONRAD, _Heart of Darkness_
  
  > Contents
  
    1. Title Page
    2. Dedication
    3. Epigraph
    4. Friday 
    5. Saturday 
    6. Monday 
    7. Tuesday 
    8. Wednesday 
    9. Thursday 
    10. Friday 
    11. Saturday 
    12. Sunday 
    13. Monday 
    14. Tuesday 
    15. Wednesday 
    16. Thursday 
    17. Christmas Eve 
    18. Christmas Day 
    19. Friday 
    20. Acknowledgements 
    21. About the Author 
    22. Copyright
  
  > > Friday
  
  > In the long room it is quiet. Winter, late afternoon. Each of the eight
  > desks in the room is islanded in lamplight, its occupant marooned. There are
  > windows along one wall, but as soon as dark begins to fall slatted blinds
  > are drawn across them to bar the view from the building on the other side of
  > the street. In daylight the windows are veiled by nylon curtains. The
  > curtains smell of dust. They are weig