IESNYC: 2011 Thesis Award
The faculty, of the MFA Lighting Design program in the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design, has selected Matias Lopez to receive the IESNYC Thesis Prize for 2011. Derek Porter, Director of the program, expressed his thanks to the section “for your ongoing generosity toward Parsons and our students. We certainly benefit from your contributions in immeasurable ways.”
The project involved creating a sequence of spaces with carefully designed day lighting effects. Mr. Lopez summed up his thesis, “Through the design of a memorial to celebrate the figure and the artistic legacy of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, (tragically killed after the state coup occurred on September 11, 1973) and by the study of disciplinary tools like contrast relations and the physical manipulation of light, this work attempts to explore this expressive and narrative dimension of light and its ability, in combination with architectural matter, to symbolize or abstract a specific sequence of events by the language of design.”
