本书作者是日本灯光设计师Kaoru Mende，计划者联合社社长。此社由最初的6个成员于1990年成立，致力于建筑的高档灯光设计。现今灯光设计的重大挑战在于如何在生活中运用自然光的同时运用创新高科技。

在本书的工程中，各式各样的灯光被采用：柔和的、审美上使人愉悦的、风格独特的、变幻莫测的、庄严的以及随意的等等。

The author is Kaoru Mende, Lighting Designer, President of Planners Associates Inc. The group is organized in 1990 with 6 members to produce superior lighting environments and thus contribute widely to the culture of architecture and light. The important challenge in lighting will be the eternal one of how to utilize natural light in our lives while also applying innovative technologies. In those lighting designs, various concepts were put forward-gentle light, aesthetically pleasing light, stylish light, shifting, changing light, formal and casual light, and so on.