Kit Cuttle Interview 2018 (No CEU)

Christopher “Kit” Cuttle, MA, PhD, FCIBSE, FIESANZ, FIESNA, FSLL, is a lighting educator, designer and author. During a long career, he has held the positions of Head of Graduate Education in Lighting at the Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; Senior Lecturer at the Schools of Architecture at the University of Auckland and the Victoria University of Wellington, both in New Zealand; Section Leader in the Daylight Advisory Service, Pilkington Glass; and Lighting Designer with Derek Phillips Associates (now DPA Lighting Consultants), both in the UK. In addition to more than 140 published papers and articles, he is author of three books: Lighting by Design, Architectural Press, 2008 (2nd edition); Light for Art’s Sake, Butterworth Heinemann, 2007; and Lighting Design: A Perception-Based Approach, Routledge, 2015. His recent awards include the Society of Light and Lighting 2017 Lighting Award; the Professional Lighting Design 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award; and the SLL 2013 Leon Gaster Award for his Lighting Research & Technology paper, A New Direction for General Lighting Practice.

Mark Roush, is a marketing consultant and principal of Experience Light in Red Bank, New Jersey – serving several companies in the Lighting industry. Roush served as President of the IES in 2015-2016. He has had 37 years in lighting technology, application, and education with companies including Philips, Acuity, Brandston and Partners, LumiLEDs, Dialight, Holophane, and Luficer Lighting in various executive, marketing, design, application engineering, business development and education roles. He has been on the faculties of two universities teaching lighting in architecture and interior design, and has contributed to numerous articles in Lighting Design + Application and Architectural Lighting Magazines and delivered several seminars, panel discussions and presentations at lighting industry functions nationally.

Roush, an IES Fellow, has been Past President of the IALD Education Trust and chair/facilitator for the past 17 years of the LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards. Mark has his Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he specialized in Illumination Studies. He is well known as a speaker, facilitator, panel moderator and ambassador in numerous lighting industry events.