House to Half

Lighting

McCandless . . . he’s dead, let’s move on!

—M. L. Geiger

From all things scenic to lighting, this chapter discusses lighting. In the same format as other chapters, we discuss some of the history for lighting through a variety of developments straight to today’s fixtures. Automation is the biggest overall change the lighting industry has seen since electricity. Conventional lighting (meaning ...

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