Light is an opportunity to create high added value projects. It is therefore a limit to consider light only from a functional and technical point of view, it has become a chance in which practical knowledge must be accompany by the understanding of cultural, psychological and perceptive aspects. The workshop Museum Lighting is aimed to offer participants a specialization in Museum and Historical Buildings Lighting developing the lighting project for a prestigious case history together one of the most important Lighting Designer in the world, Claude R. Engle III.

 

Lecturer: Mr. Claude Engle III attended Princeton University where he, in 1960, received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He is a Registered Professional Engineer. Prior to entering private practice he worked in New York City in the design of theatrical and television lighting. Mr. Engle is past chairman of the Capital Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society and was a member of the faculty at Princeton University School of Architecture and Urban Planning. He has been a judge of the IES National Lighting Competition and a member of the American Institute of Architects Jury for Interior Design for Houston, Texas and Los Angeles.

 

The firm of Claude R. Engle, Lighting Consultant was established in 1968 by Mr. Claude R. Engle III to apply his training in Electrical Engineering and experience in theatrical and television lighting to the discipline of architecture. Committed to the design of lighting as an integral part of architectural design, the firm's services begin with consultation on the conceptual implications of light to the project. The services include the development and detailed specification of lighting systems, lighting fixtures and lighting controls, coordination of the lighting with the architectural details, and the detailed follow-through required to achieve the lighting concepts in the finished projects.

 

The firm has provided these services for leading architects in the United States, Europe, the Far East and Australia on a wide range of projects including museums, art galleries, concert halls, high-rise office towers, theatres, hotels, underground and surface rapid transit systems, urban development, urban highways, airports and public plazas.

 

The list of his Museum and Historical Building main lighting projects includes the Grand Louvre in Paris, the MOMA in New York, the British Museum in London, the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Kennedy Center for performing Arts in Washington, the Fogg Art Museum in Boston, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Corning Glass Museum in New York, the Joslyn Museum in Omaha, the Cathedral of the holy name in Chicago.

 

Who should attend: International professionals, lighting designers

 

Language: English

 

Study methodology: The historical Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence is the location choosen for the lighting concept to be developed in the workshop. The programme will be developed with theoretical lessons and practical sections. A visit to the location will be organized to collect all the information to use during the practical section at La Sfacciata. Every participant or group, followed by the lecturer, will prepare a final presentation of the project to present to local authorities at the end of the workshop. The number of participants is limited to ensure to each of them to be completely involved in the project and to interact closely with the lecturer.

 

In 1419 in an attempt to do something for the many infants who were frequently abandoned, the Arte della Seta, a prosperous guild of silk merchants, inaugurated the foundation of a Spedale, or Hospital, a place where foundlings could find refuge and the proper care and education.

 

In 1421 the Florentine Republic ratified the decision and put the Institution under the tutelage of the silk guild. In the meanwhile Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), the famous and bellicose designer of the Dome of the Cathedral of Florence, had been charged with preparing the project and seeing to its realization. The structural concept and the porticoed façade were new to civil architecture of the time and embodied the prototype of the Renaissance dwelling. Thanks to the sensitivity of the administrators and the love of the population in general for Beauty, works of art continually found their way into the church and the rooms of the Institute.

 

A Museum has been installed in the Gallery that corresponds to the portico on the façade, destined as “abode for the boys” In Brunelleschi’s project, to contain that part of the vast artistic patrimony. There one can see the splendid Adoration of the Magi (1488) by Domenico Ghirlandaio, commissioned for the high altar of the Curch, and the gentle Madonna and Child (circa 1450) by Luca della Robbia, set above a side altar in the inner women’s church up to the end of the 19th century; an imposing and original panel, one of Piero di Cosimo’s masterpieces, dating to the latter years of the 15th century and painted for a side altar of the public church; a Madonna and Child by Sandro Botticelli done in imitation of the more famouse painting by his master Filippo Lippi; a delicate altarpiece with the coronation of the Virgin by the Master of the Madonna Strauss (circa 1405); an early 15^th century triptyc by Giovanni Toscani; a Crucifixion by Poppi (1580-1590); a vibrant painting on terracotta (1566) by Naldini and other panels of the Florentin 15th, 16th and 17th century.

 

There are also furniture and furnishings, illuminated codes of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, some the work of Gherardo di Giovanni, and a collection of signs of recognition left by the mothers on their tiny abandoned children. It is possible, within the Hospital, to admire the harmonious and measured spaces of the cloisters, in the Men’s Cloister (where there is also a lunette with an Annunciation by Andrea della Robbia and an holy water stoup by Antonio Rossellino) and in the Women’s Cloister, with its ambulatory for the children.

 

There is also the Church of Santa Maria degli Innocenti which was originally designed by Brunelleschi and, in the eighteenth century, restored in neoclassical style by Bernardo Fallani, the architect of the Grand Duchy.

 

 

2004 calendar

Workshop Museum and Historical Building Lighting

Basic Indoor Lighting Course

 

- Basic Courses: dedicated to all people who want to learn the fundamental concepts for a correct and effective use of light

- Workshops: dedicated to all professionals who want to specialize in specific applications. The activities are intensive

programmes with lessons in theory, laboratories in practical applications and case histories.

 

The Foundation is housed in Florence at Villa La Sfacciata, a 15th century Villa near the Certosa monastery. It is

located on a hill known as Giogoli. Painted rooms, educational areas, a wide conference room and a contemporary art gallery are the frame for a path to discover light, its cultural values and its potentialities.

 

La Sfacciata

Via Volterrana, 82

50023 Firenze

 

All courses follow this schedule

9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.

2.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.

Every day will be organized two coffee breaks at 11.00 a.m. and at 4.00 p.m. and the Lunch at 1.00 p.m.

 

Registrations are closed for 30 participants. Application should be submitted at least 15 days before the starting day of the course. The application form can be downloaded on line at www.lightingacademy.org or be requested by e-mail

e.baldanzi@targetti.it or by phone calling the number +39 055 3791328. It is possible to send the application on line or by fax +39 055 3791255 together with the certification of the payment.

 

Participants will receive at the beginning of the course:

- Slides of the presentations

- Articles and information about each topic

- Bibliography

 

1.000 Euros + VAT (20%). The fee include study material, the hotel booking service, shuttle service to connect the hotel to the workshop headquarters, coffee breaks, lunches. The entrance fee for the enrolment in the course has to be paid at the same moment of the application for admission with a money transfer as written in the subscription form.

 

It is available the hotel booking service at least 15 days before the starting day of the courses. A shuttle services is available to transfer participants from the Hotel to La Sfacciata.

 

At the end of each course the certificate of attendance will be issued to participants.