Lighting Design

Richard Kelly (1910-1977) was one of the first designers to focus exclusively on lighting–both electric and daylighting–designing more than 300 projects with some of the leading names in 20th century architecture, including Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn. This year marks the centennial of Kelly’s birth, which is being celebrated by the [...]

In short, IES is for it. Check out the position paper here (PDF) to learn more about integrated building design and why IES advocates it as a way to produce buildings that are cost-effective, resource-efficient and comfortable.

Litecontrol, a company I’m proud to call a client, has published a new brochure providing guidance to designers interested in perimeter lighting best practices and techniques to achieve architecturally attractive and visually comfortable spaces. Download the brochure here.

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Architectural SSL Magazine recently published an article I wrote about a new Hugo Boss concept store in New York City. The challenge was to create a dynamic visual environment to complement the bold and innovative fashions of Hugo Boss. For lighting designer A.J. Weissbard, this meant blending architectural retail lighting with theatrical lighting to create [...]

Architectural SSL recently published an article I wrote about Rock Sugar, a new 7,000+ sq.ft. Los Angeles restaurant offering Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Indonesian and East Indian food in opulent surroundings. The particular demands of the lighting design, coupled with strict requirements imposed by Title 24, disqualified many conventional lighting methods. Lighting designers Focus Lighting turned [...]

Cooper Lighting recently announced the winners of the 33rd Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The winners were recognized at LIGHTFAIR 2010 in Las Vegas at the Keynote Speaker luncheon on May 11 in front of an audience of 650 design professionals. Eight professional awards and five student awards were presented. Top honors in [...]

A new initiative of the IALD Education Trust Fund, www.learn2light.com provides an overview of the schools that offer programs in architectural lighting design, engineering or science. These programs offer at least a major or minor in architectural lighting.

Surfaces and objects in a space may be considered an extension of the lighting system. If light is not absorbed, it is reflected and transmitted with reduced intensity to other surfaces and objects, where it is absorbed, reflected and transmitted. All surfaces and objects in a space that reflect or transmit light can be considered [...]