Louis Poulsen Receives AIA Collaborative Achievement Award
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected five recipients for its Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement, the highest form of recognition bestowed by the institute on allied professionals and organizations who work in the field of architecture. This year's recipients are the Active Design Guidelines, a multiagency, interdisciplinary collaboration with the New York City Dept. of Design and Construction; the Dallas Architecture Forum, a nonprofit civic organization; landscape architect Peter Lindsay Schaudt; professor and landscape architect Walter J. Hood Jr.; and lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen Lighting. This is the first time in the award program's history that a lighting company has been recognized. Read more
BIX Light and Media Façade Added to Moma's Permanent Collection
The BIX light and media installation, designed for the façade of the Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria, by Jan and Tim Edler of the Berlin-based design studio Realities:United, has received a significant honor-a place in the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) permanent Architecture and Design Collection. An early prototype at 1:1 scale of the light fixture will be displayed, which represents a single "pixel" on the Kunsthaus' media façade. Inclusion in the collection recognizes BIX's relevancy as one of the first integrations of architecture, media, and art. Read more
From the Archive
Reality & The Art of Revealment
From the Archive presents articles from the past 25 years, with new commentary from members of the lighting community. Read more
In Focus
GSA Regional Field Office Building
A secondary glass façade provides sun shading and softens visual boundaries. Read more
Report
The Model Lighting Ordinance Journey 2004–2011
Nancy Clanton, chair of the Model Lighting Ordinance Task Force, discusses the intricacies involved in drafting an outdoor-lighting guideline document. Read more
Smart Buildings, Smart Grid
Energy-efficient lighting is an indispensable feature of the office of the future. Read more
New luminaire offerings for exterior applications. Read more
Light plays a critical role in meeting both the design and security requirements for U.S. land port of entry stations. Read more
Pool On the Water
Tillett Lighting Design's scheme for a public pool—on a barge floating on New York City's rivers—keeps views open to the surrounding cityscape. Read more
One-on-One
One-on-One with Jan Lennox Moyer
Jan Lennox Moyer has been busy. For nearly 30 years she has combined her passions for lighting and for landscape into a singular endeavor, and in the process emerged not only as one of the few lighting designers specializing in landscape lighting, but also as the practitioner who has come to define this specialty. Read more