ABOUT RICHARD KELLY

Richard Kelly devoted his life to extraordinary contributions to the lighting design profession. He was one of the pioneers of architectural lighting consult.

His reverence for, and his understanding of, the behavior of light was promulgated as the design values known as: focal glow, sparkling brilliance, and ambient luminescence. He was a designer of over three hundred major projects; he worked with over eighty prominent architects; he always performed with original and inventive authority.

He sought to first understand the problem and then followed with a creative solution. His synthesis of technology with artistic purpose transformed the ordinary into beauty.

A few of his most recognized accomplishments are the Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson Architects (above left); Philip Johnson’s Glass House (above right); The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, Philip Johnson, Architect (below left); the Kimbell Museum of Fine Arts (below right); and the Yale Center of British Art and Studies, Louis Kahn Architect.