From Paris, Let There Be Light
From François Hoehlinger And there was light. And it lit up our cobbled streets, made it possible to work later at night, made the...
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Leni Schwendinger
May 22, 20231 min read
NYCxDESIGN & LightFair Present
Future Directions for Urban Space at Night, a panel conversation exploring ways that urban lighting activates public space after dark....
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 20, 20232 min read
Facets of Light
City planners, developers and design professionals regard evening and nighttime hours as critical for master planning, cultural diversity...
Leni Schwendinger
Feb 9, 20231 min read
6th Street Viaduct: is it a bridge or a place?
Proposed archway illumination envisaged real time traffic data displayed through tints and nature’s rhythms Significantly, LSLP was...
Leni Schwendinger
Nov 17, 20221 min read
Pilots by Night - have you tested? -
Light is a magical lever for community engagement Pilots, or trial demonstrations, are key to successful projects. Elizabeth Barrett...
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 16, 20202 min read
Urban Lighting Design: Contemporary Vision for Nocturnal Environments
Visit the re-energized Leni Schwendinger Light Projects website Feast your eyes, intellect and imagination on images and text about the...
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 11, 20173 min read
Inventing Nighttime Design
Nighttime design and its concomitant Shades of Night analysis were born out of the NightSeeing™ Program During the dark hours, a nexus of...
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 7, 20171 min read
El-space recognition from Fast Company
Link here for Design Trust for Public Space updates on Under the Elevated, Phase 2
Leni Schwendinger
Mar 30, 20161 min read
Envisioning the future of public space illumination – Looking back at looking forward, part one
In 2001, for their 20th anniversary issue Metropolis magazine’s back page featured several architects’ and designers’ quick visions for...
Leni Schwendinger
Mar 16, 20161 min read
El-Space: first, the after-dark site study
It was cold, it was dark…normal site study conditions. Arup staff and I braved the night with cameras, illuminance meters, laser...
Leni Schwendinger
Jul 23, 20151 min read
Leni’s eclectic nighttime design bibliography, part 2
Nightwalking, A Nocturnal History of London, by Matthew Beaumont. The book arrived bedside and surely it “…shines a light on the shadowy...
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 19, 20151 min read
Leni’s eclectic nighttime design bibliography
Do you read? Here, this list is for you: publications on urban design, historical light, stories of sleep, nocturnal narratives, the...
Leni Schwendinger
Mar 22, 20152 min read
Nighttime Design Has its Day
Here, the Arup description: “In the past, the attitude of ‘the more light the better’ has led to a general abundance of light, especially...
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 25, 20133 min read
City Light Guide – NYC – Read Cities After Dark + Movie: Cleveland’s Slice of Nigh
City Light Guide, a free mobile app by Philips has just been released. Link to Android City Light Guide & Apple City Light Guide apps...
Leni Schwendinger
Oct 5, 20111 min read
A Slice of Light: Selections from Fusing Art + Design
A launch to the season of golden slanting sun and naturally tinting leaves, here is a seasonal selection of commentaries voted the best...
Leni Schwendinger
Jun 13, 20113 min read
Islington After Dark (A London LightWalk)
Photo by Leni The NightSeeing program’s intention is to open people’s eyes to an existing nighttime milieu, as well as providing an...
Leni Schwendinger
May 1, 20114 min read
Fête des Lumières; a NightSeeing™ LightWalk in Lyon, Part 2
Visual memories of December 2010 are clothed in a vapor of magenta pink. During the famous ‘Fête des Lumières‘ in December 2010, Philips...
Leni Schwendinger
Feb 4, 20112 min read
Shadings; a contemporary music and projection performance @ Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
SHADINGS is a hybrid work by composer Laura Elise Schwendinger and lighting artist Leni Schwendinger. Playing It UNsafe Concert Friday,...
Leni Schwendinger
Dec 25, 20104 min read
LightWalk Times Square with Author Dietrich Neumann and his Architectural History Class
I was thrilled to receive a message from Dietrich Neumann, whose “Architecture of the Night” has inspired so many. He indicated that he...
Leni Schwendinger
Dec 21, 20101 min read
SpectraScape morphs into winter, one year after commission
SpectraScape, the Public Art installation comprised of video bands of light that scroll across the green glass shelters at Main Street...
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