Architectural Lighting Innovations

Five years ago, we anticipated that the advance of LED technology and concurrent developments in materials science, interconnectivity, and media technology would revolutionize the lighting industry and offer new opportunities for design. Today, these changes are evident: The power and impact of light are prominent, lighting components are less visible and more integrated with the architecture, and the boundary between lighting and media design is nebulous.

Five years from now, responsive lighting designs will be the norm. We see great opportunities to create spaces with interactive light, where its intensity, color, and movement respond to occupants or to programming, changing the use of any space, on any given day or days. These options, available for many years at high cost, now bring creative programming within reach of any project. The intersection of advances in the color quality and range of LED chips, the lighting controls embedded within LED chip programming, wireless communications, and the Internet of Things will create the greatest change in the lighting design field.