VICTOR QUEZADA

PRINCIPAL, ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING TEAM LEAD | MFA, MIES

As the Architectural Lighting Team Lead and Principal with AES Lighting, I use my background in visual and conceptual art to marry the architect’s creative vision with the technical detail on projects. Working alongside the engineering professionals at AES allows me to use my design and product expertise to contribute to a project’s overall beauty and sustainability, facilitating the aesthetic integration of the lighting solution with the overall architecture and built environment.

I let you focus on the design, while I focus on illuminating that design.

With a strong background in visual and conceptual art, I hold an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and have specialized in lighting design since 2008. My work has been featured in LD+A, the magazine of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. In 2016 I was honoured by Design Quarterly in the Lighting, Best Practices category of their Winter issue. Since joining AES, I have received numerous awards including the IES Vancouver 2020 Award of Merit, Interior Lighting Design for the Catriona Jeffries Gallery. In 2019, my work on the Whistler Bus Shelter was recognized with both the IESBC 2019 Award of Merit for Outdoor Lighting Design and the IESNA 2019 Illumination Award of Merit as well as being shortlisted for both a 2019 [d]arc award in the Structures Low Budget category and a 2020 Lighting Design Awards, Low Budget Project of the year category.

In addition, I like to contribute lighting philosophies and strategies by way of Public speaking. In 2017, Sunny Ghataurah and I presented “The Waltz of Light and Architecture” at the IES Annual Conference in Portland Oregon and at Light Fair International 2018 in Chicago, Illinois as well as BUILDEX Vancouver 2018 and The Alberta Association of Architects Conference in Calgary, Alberta 2019. Our most recent presentation “Lighting & Human Biology: An Exploration of the Effect of Light on Our Well-Being & Implications for the Built Environment” debuted at BUILDEX Alberta in 2019 and was subsequently presented at BUILDEX Vancouver 2020.