DARKNESS Archives - AWA Lighting Designers

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..

Abhay Wadhwa to Speak at NOMA Conference in Chicago

Abhay Wadhwa, Design Principal & CEO at AWA Lighting Designers will speak at the NOMA Conference in Chicago on Thursday, October 18 2018. His talk is entitled “Out of Shadows: Darkness in a New Light” The following is the abstract from his talk: Positive visual environments require a hea..

Abhay Wadhwa in IFJ’s Special Commemorative Issue

29 August 2018
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LIGHT MATTERS: AWA's Abhay Wadhwa Deconstructs Light for IFJ's Special Commemorative Issue AWA's Design Principal and CEO Abhay Wadhwa is featured in the Special Commemorative Issue celebrating 30 years of IFJ. He is honored to be included in this select group of design professionals. SELECTED EXCER..

Darkness – Color Mixing (Part 3.1 of a 6 Part Series)

Welcome back to our series exploring Darkness in lighting design! Today, we discuss the mixing of colors. ADDITIVE MIXING Mixing colors of light In absence of color the result is black Presence of all three primaries is white SUBTRACTIVE MIXING &nbsp..

Darkness – What is the Relationship?

“The eye goes through its involuntary process of responding and adapting to changing brightness values of successive spaces. Sometimes those changes in brightness are severe and occur suddenly, and the eye is forced to adapt accordingly.” • -Lou Michel, ‘Light: The Shape of Space: Designing..

What is Darkness? Shadow? – Part 1.1 of a 6 Part Series

We begin our series on understanding darkness in lighting design with a quote from self-taught Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the self-taught Japanese architect who won the Pritzker Prize in 1995: "It is necessary to return to the point where the interplay of light and dark reveals forms, and in ..

The Culture of Lighting (Part 1.1 of 6)

Hypothesis Lighting balances universal ideas about light with local variations (1.2) A given culture’s position in the global economic development cycle is reflected in its use of lighting in urban, built and un-built, nighttime environments (1.3) Successful lighting design balances human instinc..

AWA Newsflash: Abhay Wadhwa to Speak at International Conference

Abhay Wadhwa, Design Principal & CEO at AWA Lighting Designers has been invited to speak at the '85th International Conference on Light & Vision,' in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Hosted by the College of Syntonic Optometry, he will speak on “Out of Shadows: Darkness in a New Light,” on Sat..

Jung vs. Tanizaki

Light and dark possess powerful connotations for the figures of psychologist Carl Jung and novelist Jun’ichiro Tanizaki. Jung wrote that “the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being;” Tanizaki that “were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty...

AWA Archtober Event Tonight at 6pm!

AIA CES Course Lecture by Abhay Wadhwa, AWA Lighting Designers Tonight October 6th 2015 at 6pm Location: Edison Price Lighting Gallery - 41-50 22nd St. Long Island City NY 11101 Register to attend the Lecture HERE Evocative visual environments require a healthy balance between bright a..