“Light has to attract people to that space, but also make that space comfortable once they have entered it. This is a difficult balance to strike but it is vital to the design of retail environments.” PERFECT ACCENT Light has a substantial impact on increased sales and brand positioning. ..
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August 21 2019 l Volume 19.11 Abhay Wadhwa, Design Principal & CEO at AWA Lighting Designers will be speaking at the following upcoming conferences this fall:• 16th annual International Light Association (ILA) conference in Pula, Croatia from September 18th to 20th 2019○Topi..
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“Hopefully, with dialog, we will free ourselves from the tyranny of uniform lux levels.” Selected Excerpts from Abhay Wadhwa’s talk at ISOLA: “How does light and lighting, through the filter of culture and climate, help in creating a sense of place? What we’re seeing is that the..
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“The lighting design scheme utilizes a parametric design approach to understand the essence of the scale, “stitching” the lighting through the 44-acre township.” THE PARAMETRIC APPROACH Lightings’ Impact on the Varying Scales of the Built Environment Lighting can play an important r..
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“Lighting in the civic sphere is not without its challenges; every project requires us to consider diverse viewpoints, as space is utilized by a broad cross-section of people.” Light has been unfettered since inception. However, when human beings began to colonize light through electricity, ..
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“The appropriate choice of direction for a project is then a mirror to the cultural and historical context, through the prism of illusion or allusion.” Lighting of Historic Buildings While exploring and analyzing design solutions for the lighting of historic buildings, there is often an i..
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“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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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 ..
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WE HAVE MOVED! AWA's Design Studio and Gallery AWA have relocated to the Landmark Arts Building in the Art District of Manhattan (Chelsea, Hudson Yards) Our Location: 548 West 28th Street Suite 338 New York NY 10001 (Phone number and emails remain the same) In the new space, creativity surrounds A..
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