June 2013 - AWA Lighting Designers

Newsflash: AWA and Phosphorus at the Lumen Staten Island Festival

AWA Lighting Designers teamed with PHOSPHORUS to create an interactive installation called “Biography Collective” for the Lumen Festival at Staten Island. The Event was held at Lyons Pool, a NYC Department of Parks and Recreation site on Staten Island, on Saturday, June 15th. The Installation w..

James Turrell Spreads the Dazzling Lights Love at the University of Texas

As James Turrell continues his three-pronged attack on the art world this summer — with simultaneous retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — a quiet storm of construction is underway at the University of Texas a..

LRC Demonstrates Advanced Building Infrastructure for Solid-State Lighting in Hollywood

In a Hollywood conference room, researchers from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and product engineers from OSRAM SYLVANIA capped off eight years of research and concept development with a field demonstration that takes LED lighting to the next level. The firs..

Residence in Amritsar

Our lighting design intent responded to the Architects request to create warm and home-like spaces, while expressing the architectural massing. We also gave special attention to the local foliage in the landscape to create a sense of a nature and peacefulness. Architect: Ranjodh Singh Annotated Si..

New York Times: How James Turrell Knocked the Art World Off Its Feet

It was a beautiful Thursday morning in May, and everything was going wrong. James Turrell had six days to prepare for the biggest museum exhibition of his life — 11 complex installation pieces at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — but he didn’t have a single work finished, and he was missi..

Abhay Wadhwa Presented on The Impact of Culture and Climate on Light in Seoul, Korea

On Thursday May 30, Abhay Wadhwa presented a lecture on The Impact of Culture and Climate on Light at the pre-opening salon seminar for the Social Place Novo Exhibit. The Exhibit and lecture was hosted by Novo Architecture. Please click here for a link to Novo Architecture’s website...

AWA Will Participate in Lumen Staten Island on June 15

AWA will be teaming up with Phosphorus to build a 30’ by 30’ interactive installation called “Biography Collective” where spectators become the artist of a collaborative canvas of light. As four participant’s step into the role of creator, the installation will use various techniques and m..

Leading Lights in the World of Light Technology

Technology has transformed the possibilities for designers working with light and BBC News has caught up with three of them to learn how they have embraced it. Adrian McEwen, one of the founders of Good Night Lamp, a London Tech City-based start-up, explained how his company's wi-fi lamps aim to tu..