June 2019 - AWA Lighting Designers

PERSPECTIVES ON LIGHT (Essay Series 3.1)

“Light in a space is easily understood when seen as the colloquial paintbrush, revealing and hiding elements in a space for comfort, productivity, safety, and an appropriate ambiance. In that way, lighting can be appropriately referred to as the art of revealment and concealment.” I ga..

When Did Darkness Become Bad? (Essay Series 2.1)

Written by Abhay M. Wadhwa. “We praise shadows and darkness, or rather, the sculpting of light. The question is not how we can harness light, but rather how can we curate light.” WHEN DID DARKNESS BECOME BAD? The most prominent and fundamental element of our critique of..

Why We Should Define Light as an Overarching Consideration of the Visual Sense (Essay Series 1.1)?

The Paradigm Shift and Our Zeitgeist (Part 1) Light exists in our zeitgeist as a medium by which we receive different forms of information, but it exists more explicitly through its capacity to help us to see. However, light possesses a broader contextualization. Light informs the mood and our a..

Join us at the 16th annual International Light Association (ILA) conference in Pula, Croatia from Sept. 18th to 20th.

The International Light Association (ILA) is a multidisciplinary organization consisting of lighting professionals and enthusiasts with a variety of backgrounds. If you are a professional in any of the fields listed below, you will be able to meet the leading practitioners and thinkers for wo..

AWA Project Highlight: National War Memorial New Delhi India

Project Team: Client: Executing Agency of National War Memorial and Museum, Ministry of Defense, Government of India Architect: Webe Design Lab Lighting Consultant: AWA Lighting Designers- New York & New Delhi Landscape Architect: Design Cell Year: 2016-2019 Visuals: Maniyarasan R ..