Updates From the ILA Conference in Pula! Abhay Wadhwa, Design Principal & CEO at AWA Lighting Designers is just back from the tremendous 19th annual International Light Association (ILA) conference in an AMAZING location- Pula Croatia! Abhay's talk "The Impact of Culture and Climate..
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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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