2018 Annual WASLA Conference

Motif Seattle, March 16, 2018

9:50 - 10:50 AM
The Art of Exterior Lighting

Description:

While owners and designers focus on the intricacies of interior lighting, too often nighttime exterior environments are needlessly over-lighted. Exterior lighting is often treated as an engineering discipline with an emphasis on illuminance uniformity and little concern for glare.

The Art of Exterior Lighting addresses the strategic, artful, and sensitive application of light in exterior environments, sharing lessons learned through award-winning projects such as the High Line (New York, NY), Metropolitan Museum Faade and Plaza (New York, NY) and Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, PA).

Lead Speaker:

Jason Neches, IALD, MIES

Speaker Bios:

Jason Neches, IALD, MIES, Principal, WATT Lighting
Jason Neches is a lighting designer with experience on a number of award-winning public and private projects. Originally educated in International Finance, Jason discovered a love of architecture and light while living abroad in Tokyo.

For the past 12 years Jason lived in New York City and served as Director for the lighting design firm L'Observatoire International, as well as professor for Parsons School of Design's Masters Degree in Lighting program. In addition to studio and practice management, Jason also served as Project Manager and Senior Lighting Designer on many notable L'Observatoire projects.

Jason recently relocated to Seattle in search of adventure - founding WATT Lighting Design in 2016 and hiking the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will learn, though project examples, the added value, enrichment, and extended hours of enjoyment that lighting can bring to exterior environments with careful consideration of brightness hierarchy, glare control, and mitigation of light pollution.

Project examples will include materials to demonstrate the lighting design process, from concept studies and renderings that communicate design intent, to site mockups and calculations that validate the design, to resources for landscape lighting.

Attendees shall gain a deeper understanding that modern lighting equipment has advanced considerably in the last 5 years, allowing for an improved and enhanced expression of exterior environments at night. New and innovative uses of light can liberate exterior spaces from bland uniformity and uncomfortable glare of the past.