Light is an important, trend-setting design medium in contemporary architecture. Modern lighting technologies make it possible to place objects and buildings in the right light, accentuating and energising, or even to illuminate whole areas of a city effectively. Professional light planners cooperate with architects, industrial designers and electricians on an interdisciplinary level to create a harmonious overall concept for the interrelation of light and space.

In this publication accompanying the exhibition at Deutscher Werkbund Berlin, Werkbund members Jan Dinnebier, Michael F. Rohde and Carla Wilkens present lighting projects in various fields of professional light planning. Their staged lighting concepts e.g. for the German Museum of Technology and the Flick Collection in Berlin or the Post Tower in Bonn afford us a sensual experience of the encounters between light, architecture and art.