MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES IN
INTERIOR LIGHTING DESIGN
Lighting design is both an art and a science, and changing technologies, new energy efficiency laws, and the demand for inspired, innovative solutions have created a strong need for specialists in interior lighting design.
• 30-credit, one-year degree; courses begin in the fall and end in the summer • This program requires full-time study, with all classes in the evenings and on weekends • Applicants must have a degree in interior design, architecture, engineering or a closely related field and an advanced portfolio
Student Work: Daylight Modeling
AMY NELSON
ANNABEL JIMENEZ
Alumni Profile: Matthew McCarthy
Matthew McCarthy was a theatrical lighting designer before enrolling in NYSID’s MPS in Interior Lighting Design program. Soon after graduating in 2015, he was hired as a junior lighting designer at Domingo Gonzalez Associates, a wellknown architectural lighting design firm that specializes in transportation, education, historic preservation, corporate, hospitality, and healthcare.
PSEUDOCOLOR ILLUMINANCE ANALYSIS
“ Having a faculty of full-time lighting professionals who are actively engaged in the industry keeps the program well connected to current trends and the most modern techniques. The field trips, guest lecturers, and the NYSID Career Services office provided tremendous networking opportunities.”
The MPS in Interior Lighting Design is an innovative program that identifies light as a
Faculty
to build with, and as a construction
John Katimaris AIA, IES, IIDA, ASHRAE, USGBC, DLFNY MPS-L program director
method—a procedure that integrates light
Charles Cameron, IES, IALD
into the process of interior design. The
Eric Chenault, LC, LEED AP
program is a synergetic course of study
Nathalie Faubert, IES
that gives students the opportunity to
Shaun Fillion, LC MIES
both a construction material—a substance
apply the knowledge gained from targeted core instructional lighting design seminar classes into their lighting design studios.
Curriculum (30 credits)
Jeffrey Hoenig Addison Kelly, LC, IALD Patricia McGillicuddy, IES, LEED-AP, LC Daniel Rogers, LC, IES, LEED AP Tina Sarawgi, IES, IDEC Kelly M. Seeger, LC, IES, LEED AP Pei-Heng Tsai, LEED GA
Fall Semester Daylighting Studio (3)
Attila Uysal, LC
History & Theory of Interior Illumination (2)
Katherine Wildt O’Brien
The Science of Light (2) Programming for Light (2) Presentation Techniques for Lighting Designers (2) Light Source Selection & Evaluation (2) Spring Semester Lighting Historic Interiors (2) Lighting Workshop I (4) Luminaire Design (2) Green Lighting, Energy, and Controls (2) Illuminating Art (2) Summer Session Lighting Workshop II (3) The Business of Light (2)
David Wilburn, LC, IES, IALD
Advisory Board Stephen Bernstein principal, Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design Renee Joosten lighting design director, iCrave Renee Cooley principal, Cooley Monato Studio Charles Pavarini III principal, Charles Pavarini III Design Associates William Schwinghammer principal, Schwinghammer Lighting Jean Sundin Office for Visual Interaction, Inc.
For more information about the MPS in Interior Lighting Design: visit
nysid.edu/MPS-L
e-mail John Katimaris program director jkatimaris@nysid.edu
Linnaea Tillett principal, Tillett Lighting Design Inc.