Blog
Mar
2019
2019 Portland Winter Lights
Festival
In carrying on a four-year tradition, LUMA participated in the Portland Winter Lights Festival, teaming up with Walker Macy Landscape Architects.
Oct
2018
Award-winning student designer joins
Luma
Our talented team of lighting designers just got a little stronger.
Sep
2018
PAE and Luma Earn JUST Label from
ILFI
The JUST Label isn't a certification program, but rather a transparency platform for organizations to disclose their operations, how they treat their employees, and where they make financial and community investments.
Aug
2018
Why practice matters with lighting
mock-ups
Jackie Kingen discusses the importance of using mock-ups as a design tool to make informed decisions on how light interacts with a particular space.
Jul
2018
Promoting
innovation
Promoted to Principal in Q2, Zach Suchara continues to advance Luma's mission in the built environment while coalescing the innovation between Luma and PAE.
Dec
2017
Webinar: The design of
integration
Zachary Suchara will be partnering with Phillips to present a webinar on The Design of Integration. An industry thought leader, Zach will discuss the growing understanding of lighting as an integral aspect of design.
Apr
2017
Now open: Portland Japanese Garden
expansion
We are humbled by the amazing press surrounding the Portland Japanese Garden Expansion project by Kengo Kuma Architects, Hacker Architects and Walker Macy Landscape Architecture.
Jan
2016
Luma sponsors Portland Winter Light
Festival
The Portland Winter Light Festival is taking place February 3-6 at OMSI, and throughout the city.
Feb
2015
Errant thoughts on the lighting
industry
The lighting industry is incestuous, tumultuous, fickle and I love it. These are not inherently bad traits.
Feb
2015
Dimmed vs. perceived
light
The human eye is amazing and incredibly dynamic. Because of the way the eye functions and the technical differences among light sources (i.e., incandescent, fluorescent, and LED), dimming the electric light around us is more complicated than it might seem.
Jun
2013
Luma helps create “Greenest Commercial Building in the
World”
Have you heard of the new Bullitt Center in Seattle?
