Anita Jorgensen, Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design
Location: Nassau
TuesdayMarch 19, 2024
8:30 am - 10:00 am ET
Credits 1.5 LU | Elective
Intermediate
This discussion will focus on the feature lobby of 3 Times Square and the collaborative process necessary to achieve the final lighting design concept.
Learning Objectives
- Attendees will learn about the collaborative process between the architect, client, and lighting designer. The talk will cover the design process from the germ of a concept and the progression from in-house mock-ups, to lighting calculations, to renderings, to full size contractor mock-up to the completed installation.
- This talk with demonstrate through visuals as well as hands-on table top review the latest LED technology and how it was customized to achieve a the final successful result.
- Attendees will learn how the collaborative process involves being open to new ideas, listening to the architectural design team’s goals, as well as all of the steps required to achieve a lighting design concept.
- Attendees will have a table top hand-on opportunity to observe and handle the lighting components and the modifications required in order to achieve the final lighting design.
Speaker
Anita Jorgensen
Principal
Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design
Anita Jorgensen (IALD, IES, LC, CL) is the founding principal of Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design (AJLD) located in Tribeca, NYC, and has been practicing architectural lighting design for over twenty years. Her background in art history and theatrical lighting design brings a strong sense of aesthetics and drama to her lighting design approach. Her hands-on experience gained from extensive exhibition lighting design work translates into specifications for lighting systems which are not only aesthetically pleasing, but are innovative, easily maintained, as well as durable. Anita began her lighting career in theatre and transitioned into architectural lighting design when she began to work for Fisher Marantz Stone for several years. From there she spent a number of years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Design Department lighting both temporary exhibitions, large scale renovations, as well as permanent gallery installations. Currently, AJLD works on both exhibitions, as well as significant capital projects for the Morgan Library & Museum, The Frick Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York Public Library Main Branch, as well as on a broad range of project types. Anita holds a BA in Art History & Fine Arts from CUNY Hunter College, and an MFA from New York University. Anita’s teaching experience includes “Lighting Principles in Architecture” at Parsons School of Design|The New School, she gives an annual art lighting seminar for the School of Visual Art’s Curatorial MFA program, and has been a guest speaker for Designer’s Lighting Forum NY, LEDucation NY, DesignxNYC, and Open House New York. AJLD has won numerous awards most recently for MANITOGA / The Russel Wright Design Center’s new Design Gallery, The Silver Vault gallery at the Wadsworth Museum of Art, the gallery relighting for the newly refurbished Frick Collection, NY, and Touro University’s Lobby at 3 Times Square.