October 2014 - AWA Lighting Designers

The Color Inside

© Florian Holzherr From the architect. The Color Inside is a milestone in The University of Texas at Austin’s Landmarks public art collection. Located on the roof of the Student Activity Center, the project arose from the student body’s desire for a peaceful retreat at the Student Activity Cent..

Light Matters: Smart Flying Pixels Create a Floating Glow

Flyfire. Project by MIT Senseable City Lab in collaboration with ARES Lab. Image © MIT Senseable City Lab + ARES Lab Imagine luminaires that could fly and visualise new buildings or individually guide you through space. What would happen if you could even interact with these flying pixels? These c..

Beyond “Things That Flicker”: The Next Step for Media Architecture

Times Square NYC - Image © Flickr CC User MK The word ‘media’ was appropriated (and impoverished) by broadcasting and communications in the course of their pervasion during the 20th century. As a new social phenomenon, media (along with its derivatives new media, multi media, mass media) was..