architecture and light | platform to analyse, design and teach architecture and light | arclighting | thomas schielke

<body link="#808080" vlink="#808080" alink="#808080"> <h1><font face="Arial"><small><small>architecture and light: arclighting- a platform for analysing, designing and teaching architecture and light. Thomas Schielke</small></small></font></h1> <p> </p> <h1><font face="Arial"><small><small>Architecture and light: Research Publications Conferences Teaching Profile Contact | Thomas Schielke</small></small></font></h1> <p><font face="Arial"><small><a href="http://www.arclighting.de/website/site/100_research.htm">Research</a> <a href="http://www.arclighting.de/website/site/300_publication.htm">Publications</a> <a href="http://www.arclighting.de/website/site/400_conference.htm">Conferences</a> <a href="http://www.arclighting.de/website/site/500_education.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="http://www.arclighting.de/website/site/600_profile.htm">Profile</a> <a href="http://www.arclighting.de/website/site/700_contact.htm">Contact</a></small></font></p> <div align="left"><table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="33%"><h1><small><span><font face="Arial"><strong>LED light: Innovations towards LED light boards</strong><br> Task lights and spotlights</font></span></small></h1> </td> <td width="33%"><font face="Arial"><span><small>The first decade with white LED light reveals how designers have implemented new technology in existing housing, added LED as part of a product group or created a unique design specifically for LED. The focus on task lights and spotlights vividly shows the dialogue between form and technology. The analysis includes international designers and architects like Norman Foster or Yves Behar</small>.</span></font></td> <td width="34%"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-GiDQ3OOt4" target="_blank"><img src="website/images/100_thomas_schielke_arclighting_led-task-light-spotlights.JPG" alt="Led light 99 innovations task light spotlights save energy"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><h1><span><small><font face="Arial"><strong>Architecture & Urban design: The semiotics of media facades</strong><br> When buildings start to twitter</font></small></span></h1> </td> <td width="33%"><font face="Arial"><span><small>The study depicts international media facdes with their different artistic, social or brand messages up to interfaces like iPhone or brain sensors for public participation. In the last decade, media facades have become a widespread element for luminous tweets. They establish a architecture network between the building owner and the citizens, sometimes driven by aesthetical debates, other times by commercial intentions. LED Media facades with their strong ambition for an impressive imagery have dissolved the difference between architectural lighting and graphic design.</small></span></font></td> <td width="34%"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uaum8vg60Y" target="_blank"><img src="website/images/100_thomas_schielke_arclighting_media-facade.JPG" alt="Light architecture media facade when buildings start to twitter"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><h1><span><small><font face="Arial"><strong>Architecture and LED light: Luminous walls</strong><br> From stained glass windows via modernist wallwashing to pixelated planes</font></small></span></h1> </td> <td width="33%"><font face="Arial"><span><small>Luminous walls belong to the essential repertoire of qualitative lighting design and architecture. The analysis reveals different lighting approaches in architecture: From backlit stained glass windows for spiritual enlightenment in the gothic period to modernist uniform wallwashing. Contemporary examples open the view for pixelated colour changing planes based on LED technology.</small></span></font></td> <td width="34%"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=998P2EP6SeA" target="_blank"><img src="website/images/100_thomas_schielke_arclighting_light_wall.JPG" alt="light architecture luminous walls"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><h1><span><small><font face="Arial"><strong>Architecture and light: The aesthetic of luminous ceilings</strong><br> From the image of heaven to dynamic LED light</font></small></span></h1> </td> <td width="33%"><font face="Arial"><span><small>Luminous ceilings provide spacious room impressions and can provide different types of lighting in architecture. Besides this, they are, however, also metaphors of the natural sky and a mirror of an aesthetic and architectural debate. The historical observation of ceilings reveals that the image of heaven, which reached a theological culmination in the luminous Renaissance stucco techniques, turned into large-scale light emanating surfaces. Even if the luminance of contemporary LED screens has increased intensely and thereby creates a point of attraction, designers still look to establish a pictorial language for an impressive appearance. </small></span></font></td> <td width="34%"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEPRtjKMl3I" target="_blank"><img src="website/images/100_ceiling_architecture_light_thomas_schielke.JPG" alt="light architecture luminous ceiling"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><h1><font face="Arial"><strong><small>Light and branding: Corporate light</small></strong><br> <small>Luminous brands - Architecture for communication</small></font></h1> </td> <td width="33%"><font face="Arial"><small>In a period where companies and their products have become more indistinguishable, corporate identity is not solely restricted to graphic design any longer, but aspects such as architecture and  architectural lighting have started to play an increasingly important role. The research examines architecture with its lighting history, design processes, as well as lighting solutions and their suitability for different corporate design concepts. The investigated projects range from retail, company headquarters and gastronomy to hotels and urban lighting master plans. They will be analysed for their subtle or expressive use of modern light sources, luminaire designs and lighting concepts. LEDs have become an element for branding.</small><br> <br> <small>Conference:</small><br> <small>Enlighten Europe Conference. London, 4.-5.2.2009</small> <br> <small>Experiencing Light. Eindhoven/NL, 26.-27.10.2009</small><br> <br> <small>Publication:</small><br> <small>Lighting Research and Technology. Sep, 42 (3).</small></font></td> <td width="34%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><h1><font face="Arial"><strong><small>Architecture: Visualisation</small></strong><br> <small>Architectural lighting images  The influence of visualisation techniques on lighting design</small></font></h1> </td> <td width="33%"> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><small>Images of light and architecture are a medium for designers to evoke inspiration, to evaluate concepts and to visualise ideas. Within the design process, images are transformed into material, or an abstract language of signs is converted into lighting objects. Architecture and lighting design are always preceded by graphic design processes. Various designers reveal their dialectic through individual images: Erich Mendelsohn with sketches, Ben van Berkel with data visualisations and Frank Gehry with cardboard models in combination with a 3D scanner followed by computer aided manufacturing. The question hereby arises whether their techniques and their design results can be understood as a response to image techniques of their time? How does digital image production influence architectural lighting design today?</small></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><small>Conference: <br> Professional Lighting Design Convention. </small><br> <small>London, 25.-27.10.2007</small></font></td> <td width="34%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><h1><font face="Arial"><strong><small>Interior design: LED Lighting design for elevators</small><br> </strong><small>Illuminating vertical transition spaces</small></font></h1> </td> <td width="33%"><font face="Arial"><small>Elevator technology has been perfected to such an extent that a ride in a lift has virtually no tangible side-effects. <span style lang="EN-GB">The elevator cabins, or cars, have become more compact to fit more effectively into architecture, but lighting can contribute towards rendering the dynamic quality of an elevator system more legible and enhancing the quality of the compact space as well as achieving more comfort for users. LED lighting offers many opportunities for new trends.</span></small></font></td> <td width="34%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><h1><span style lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial"><strong><small>Architecture: Lighting design for stadiums</small><br> </strong><small>Iconographic power of stadium lighting</small></font></span></h1> </td> <td width="33%"><font face="Arial"><span style lang="EN-GB"><small>Stadium lighting focuses mainly on the functional and compatible media aspects of the field. In new stadium architecture, architectural lighting comes to the fore to achieve a greater aesthetic quality. The illumination of stadiums contributes considerably to the perception of architecture. Concise lighting architecture for night-time displays effective media images that evoke strong emotions in visitors and TV viewers even before accessing the stadium. The international planned and realised projects illustrate how the perception of stadiums as structures, shifts to stadiums as images. The urban and building design analysis leads to discussions about the influence of such lighting concepts for other building types and the role of light as an ornament in architecture. Architects and lighting designers integrate dynamic illumination and coloured light sources like LEDs, to connect a multiplicity of luminaires in order to realise monumental images for urban spaces.</small></span></font></td> <td width="34%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><h1><font face="Arial">Thomas Schielke | Architecture and light</font></h1> </td> <td width="33%"><font face="Arial"><small>Thomas Schielke, born 1973, studied architecture at the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. During the course of his studies he worked as a research assistant at the department for Building Design and Lighting Technology for Prof. Hofmann. </small><br> <br> <small>He has been in charge of the didactic and communication division at the lighting manufacturer ERCO since 2001 where he designed an extensive online guide for architectural lighting, leads lighting workshops and publishes internationally articles on lighting design and technology. He is author of the book "Light Perspectives - between culture and technology". This book covers the actual qualities of light, the relationship between light and space, finally, the dimension of light as it relates to culture - based on paired terms to explore the design dimension of light.</small><br> <br> <small>Additionally, he has taught lighting design at different universities and was invited for lectures at institutions like MIT, Columbia GSAPP and Penn State University. His dissertation at the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany, analyses architectural lighting. His research interests focus on qualitative lighting design. Thereby, he examines in which way light could be used to interpret architecture and to express a semantic quality. Further, he explores the development of contemporary light patterns, LED technologies and visualisation techniques to detect historical influences and to critically discuss the progress of light and architecture. </small></font></td> <td width="34%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><p></p> </td> <td width="33%"></td> <td width="34%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><p></p> </td> <td width="33%"></td> <td width="34%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><p></p> </td> <td width="33%"></td> <td width="34%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><p></p> </td> <td width="33%"></td> <td width="34%"></td> </tr> </table> </div><table> </table> <small><p></small> </p> <div align="left"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="660" valign="top" align="left" colspan="4"><small><font face="Arial"><h1 align="left"><strong>Conferences</strong></font></small></h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><font face="Arial"><small>2012</small></font></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>Media facades: When buildings start to twitter </strong><br> Expo Lighting America. Mexico City, 29.2.-2.3.2012</small></font><p><br> </td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><font face="Arial"><small>2011</small></font></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><small><font face="Arial"><strong>Luminous walls: From stained glass windows via modernist wallwashing to pixelated planes</strong><br> Professional Lighting Design Convention. Madrid, 19.-22.10.2011</font></small><br> <br> <font face="Arial"><small><strong>Media facades: When buildings start to twitter </strong><br> 3rd Lighting Solution Conference. Dubai, 26.04.2011</small><br> <br> <small><strong>Media facades: When buildings start to twitter </strong><br> Illuminated city symposium. Portland/USA, 9.04.2011</small></font><p><br> </td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><font face="Arial"><small>2010</small></font></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>Designing lighting solutions</strong><br> Shaping Light. Howest-Industrial Design Center. Kortrijk/BE, 27.01.2010</small><br> </font><br> </td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><small><font face="Arial">2009</font></small></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><font face="Arial"><strong><small>The aesthetic of luminous ceilings: </small><br> <small>From the image of heaven to dynamic light</small></strong><br> <small>Professional Lighting Design Convention. Berlin, 29.-30.10.2009</small><br> <br> <br> <small><strong>Light and corporate identity</strong></small><br> <small>Experiencing Light. Eindhoven/NL, 26.-27.10.2009</small><br> <br> <strong><small>Let there be light! Architectural considerations in lighting design</small><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language: DE;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><br> </span></strong><small>Stadia Design & Technology. Warsaw, 21.-22.4.2009 </small><br> <strong><br> <small>Luminous brands</small><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language: DE;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><br> </span></strong><small>Enlighten Europe Conference. London, 4.-5.2.2009 </small></font><p><font face="Arial"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language: DE;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><br> </span></strong></font></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><font face="Arial"><small>2008</small></font></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>Architecture and lighting design with LEDs</strong><br> LED in lighting technology. Haus der Technik. Essen, 10.-11.3.2008</small><strong><br> <br> <small>Light and Space - Luminaires as Architectural Details</strong><br> Symposium Finishes without limits. German Center for Architecture DAZ. Berlin, 21.02.2008</small><br> </font><br> </td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><p align="right"><font face="Arial"><small>2007</small></font></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>Stadiums as images of light </strong><br> International Congress for the Design, Construction, Modernization and Management of Sports and Leisure Facilities. Cologne, 31.10.-2.10.2007</small><br> <br> <small><strong>Architectural lighting images - influence of visualisation </strong><br> Professional Lighting Design Convention. London, 25.-27.10.2007</small><br> <br> <small><strong>Learning from Architectural Lighting for Automotive Interior Lighting</strong><br> 7th International Symposium on Automotive Lighting. Darmstadt, 25.-26.9.2007</small><br> </font>  </td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><small><font face="Arial">2006</font></small></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>Innovative Lighting with LEDs.</strong> <br> VDI Conference - The Association of German Engineers.</small><br> <small>Duesseldorf, 21.-22.11.2006: Outdoor Lighting and LED</small><br> <br> <small><strong>First principles in architectural lighting - and how we can use them for automotive interior lighting</strong><br> Future for Automotive Lighting. L-LAB Summerschool 2006. <br> Winterberg, 18.-22.9.2006.</small><br> <br> <small><strong>DALI - Plug&Play and Software Technology: user-friendly installation, easy operation</strong><br> Licht 2006. CH-Bern, 10.-13.9.2006.</small><br> </font>  </td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><small><font face="Arial">2005 </font></small></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><small><font face="Arial"><strong>Designing Atmosphere With Light - Lighting Effects And Illumination Technologies</strong><br> International CTI Forum Automotive Interior. Wiesbaden, 4.-6.7.2005. </font></small></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> </tr> </table> </div><p> </p> <p> </p> <div align="left"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="650" valign="top" align="left" colspan="3"> <h1><strong><small><font face="Arial">Publications</font></small></strong></h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><font face="Arial"><small>2011</small></font></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>Interchangable lenses allow for differentiated light distribution in architectural lighting</strong><br> in: LEDs Maganzine. April. Bristol. </small><br> </font><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><font face="Arial"><small>2010</small></font></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>Light and corporate identity: Using lighting for brand communication</strong><br> in: Lighting Research and Technology. Sep, 42 (3). </small><br> </font><br> <font face="Arial"><strong><small>Optimising costs in lighting design: </small><br> <small>Total cost of ownership of a lighting system</strong><br> in: Light Design. No. 43 Sep/Oct. Russia, Moscow </small><br> </font><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><font face="Arial"><small>2009</small></font></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><small><font face="Arial"><strong>Light Perspectives between culture and technology</strong><br> ERCO, Germany. </font></small><p><font face="Arial"><br> <small><strong>Proper light for presentations</strong><br> in: Exhibitions and Displays. Detail, Germany </small><br> </font><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><p align="right"><font face="Arial"><small>2008</small></font></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>Luminous brands</strong><br> in: archithese. No. 3. Zürich, Switzerland. </small><br> <br> <small><strong>Elevators as spaces made of light</strong><br> in: Elevator World. Edition July. Alabama, USA</small><br> <br> <small><strong>Lighting for the retail world</strong><br> in: Light Design. No. 28 Sep/Oct. Russia, Moscow</small><br> <br> <strong><small>Designing with light: practical planning. </small><br> <small>Light distribution</strong><br> in: Lighting&Design. No. 2. Bedfordview, South Africa </small><br> <br> <small><strong>See, to see and being seen</strong><br> in: Hotel & Technik. No. 2. Fellbach </small><br> <br> <small><strong>Illuminating monuments</strong><br> in: Lighting India. Edition Jan/Feb. Bombay </small><br> </font>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><p align="right"><small><font face="Arial">2007</font></small></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><font face="Arial"><strong><small>Lighting your way to the top - </small><br> <small>Lighting concepts for lifts</strong><br> in: Professional Lighting Design. No. 58. Guetersloh </small><br> <br> <small><strong>Light & Living Space</strong><br> in: Lighting India. Edition Sept/Oct. Bombay </small><br> <br> <small><strong>Learning from Architectural Lighting for Automotive Interior Lighting</strong><br> in: 7th International Symposium on Automotive Lighting ISAL 2007 Proceedings of the Conference: Volume 12. Herbert Utz Verlag. Munich</small><br> <br> <small><strong>Light for the Retail World</strong><br> in: Lighting India. Edition Jan/Feb. Bombay</small><br> <br> <small><strong>Colour compensation for LED technology enables colorconstant RGB luminaires</strong><br> in: LEDs Maganzine. April. Bristol. </small><br> <br> <small><strong>DALI - Plug&Play and Software Technology: user-friendly installation, easy operation</strong><br> in: Gebaeudedigital. Edition March/April. Marburg</small><br> <br> <small><strong>Illuminating stadiums</strong><br> in: FuturArc. 1st quarter. Singapore </small><br> <small>  </small></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><small><font face="Arial">2006</font></small></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>The iconographic power of stadium lighting</strong><br> in: Professional Lighting Design. No. 48. Guetersloh </small><br> <br> <small><strong>Light concepts for façades. <br> Light - Physical basics</strong><br> in: Alexander Schmidt, Martin Töllner: Stadt Licht. <br> Fraunhofer IRB Verlag. (german)</small><br> <br> <small><strong>Digital lighting systems for contemporary housing</strong><br> in: Deutsche Bauzeitung. Edition 01. Gütersloh. (german)</small><br> </font>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><small><font face="Arial">2005 </font></small></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>Lighting Landscapes</strong><br> in: Southeast Asia Building. Issue November/December. Singapore</small><br> <br> <small><strong>The art of lighting art</strong><br> in: Architecture China. Issue October. Hong Kong</small><br> <br> <small><strong>Lighting tools for uniform vertical illumination</strong><br> in: Professional Lighting Design. No. 43. Guetersloh</small><br> <br> <small><strong>Perception-Orientated Lighting Design for Dark Sky</strong><br> in: Lighting Today. Volume One. Singapore</small><br> </font>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="220" valign="top" align="right"><small><font face="Arial">2004</font></small></td> <td width="10" valign="top" align="left"></td> <td width="420" valign="top" align="left"><small><font face="Arial"><strong>Urban Squares - Light and Outdoor design</strong><br> with Harald Hofmann, in: Jürgen Knirsch: Stadtplaetze. <br> Alexander Koch Verlag. (german)</font></small>  </td> </tr> </table> </div><p> </p> <h1><font face="Arial"><small><small>Architecture and light by Thomas Schielke: Research Publications Conferences Teaching</small></small></font></h1> </body>