LUCA SALAS BASSANI ANTIVARI
Architectural designer and lighting specialist. Born in the Mexico City, Graduated as architectural designer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Holland and then the Master in Lighting Design & Led Technology Consorzio del Politecnico de design in Milan, Italy.
His fascination for the world of lighting and architecture began with the interaction in a social space where visual perception was used as a link between technologies and sensations. His questioning of the basic function of the window in architecture, as an object that reveals the habits between the space and its user, led him to create his lighting studio as a workshop for the exploration of light on architecture.
In 2012, he started his professional practice "LSBA studio" in Milan, Italy, exploring the world of light and architecture with small instalation and exhibitions. Currently, he has realize projects in Italy, Germany, France, Holland and Mexico. He has collaborated with architecture and design studios such as: Ulrike Brandi, Paolo Rizzatto, Rossi Bianchi, Gala Fernandez, Carusso Torricella Architetti, Francesco Murano, Diego Villaseñor Arquitectos, JSa, Materia Arq, Luxuty Frontiers, Alberto Kalatch, Mauricio Rocha, Max Von Werz, Frida Escobedo, Gabriela Carrillo, Lanza Atelier, Lazaro studio.
He has given Lectures at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, UNAM the posgraduate area, Universidad ANAHUAC Norte, Politecnico di Milan, UNIS Guatemala, and at the Italian Lighting Association APIL. Since 2014 he has been a lecturer at Essence of Light workshops by Ulrike Brandi Institute For Light & Design taught in Mexico. As of 2018 he is a professor of the posgraduate degree in lighting at CENTRO university teaching his own Natural Light Workshop.
In 2017, Light magazine in London named him 40under40 light Designer of the world. In 2018 he received the Master of Light 2018 award at the Construlita Awards as well as the best lighting award at the Public Spaces Awards with his intervention in the design week Pavilion "Parte luz" by architect Gustavo Carmona, Materia Arq. where the light was worked as a reflection of the qualities of natural light during the night, time and intensities.
He has been a grantee of the "Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes" FONCA in its program "Jovenes Creadores" 2017-2018 and in 2021-2022 with the projects: Guia de la luz Natural en la ciudad de Mexico / Receptores de Luz.
In 2014, Luca settled in Mexico City, continuing his consultancy in lighting, materials, architectural spaces and time. "Design as a visual edition of the space we inhabit through the valorization of the existing."
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