Join AIA Wisconsin's Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) for a virutal event on lighting.

Light isn’t an accessory — it’s architecture’s most expressive medium.

In this statewide event, lighting designer Steven L Klein CLD, IALD shares how light can shape mood, define form, and elevate the everyday into the extraordinary. Drawing on nearly three decades of built work — from intimate residences to expansive public spaces — Steve explores how lighting transforms the way people experience architecture.

Through vivid project imagery and candid design stories, he reveals the thinking behind beautifully integrated solutions: where light disappears, shadows define, and materials come alive.

This is not a technical manual — it’s a conversation about feeling, form, and the invisible detail that turns good design into something unforgettable.

AIA Milwaukee will host an in-person watch party, please reach out to Nicholas Blavat, AIA, if interested. 

Learning Objectives:

• Explore how lighting influences spatial perception and emotional response, revealing how subtle shifts in luminance, color temperature, and contrast can transform the architectural experience.
• Understand strategies for integrating light seamlessly into architectural form, including how to use materials, structure, and detailing to conceal sources and reveal intent.
• Examine the relationship between natural and electric light, and learn techniques to create balance, hierarchy, and continuity between the two.
• Identify design approaches that elevate collaboration between architects and lighting designers, ensuring lighting becomes part of the architectural vocabulary rather than an afterthought.

Submitted for AIA/CES approval.

No refunds day of event.

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