Thomas Schielke

Dr. Thomas Schielke works as an architect and trainer for lighting design at the lighting manufacturer ERCO. He has designed an extensive online guide for architectural lighting, led lighting workshops and published international articles on lighting design and technology. He is co-author of the books “Light Perspectives – between culture and technology” and „SuperLux – Smart light art, design & architecture for cities“. Additionally, he has taught lighting design at different universities and was invited for lectures at institutions like Harvard GSD, MIT, Columbia GSAPP and ETHZ. His research interests focus on qualitative lighting design. Thereby, he examines the way in which light can be used to interpret architecture and to express a semantic quality. Further, he explores the development of contemporary light patterns, technologies and visualisation techniques to detect historical influences and to critically discuss the progress of light and architecture. His column “Light Matters” on ArchDaily reveals various perspectives of architectural lighting.