Professional Lighting Designers Association and Philips announced the Architectural Lighting Design competition, offering young professional lighting designers the chance to demonstrate their lighting design skills and creativity and to have their work reviewed by a respected international jury. If selected for the shortlist, the lighting designers will receive remuneration (1000 EUR) to develop a temporary lighting design scheme for the building. The winning design will be realized, and the winning designer awarded a further 9000 EUR and given the opportunity to present his/her project at the PLDA Celebration of Light in Frankfurt on April, 13, 2010.

The brief is to design a temporary exterior architectural lighting scheme for St. Peter’s Church in Frankfurt-on-Main. The project would be part of the Luminale exhibition run in the city of Frankfurt during Light+Building.

Lighting designers under the age of 35 are invited to forward an Expression of Interest to PLDA Head Office. The EOI should give reasons why the respective designer should be selected to design the temporary scheme and include a short CV. The deadline for entry is February 12, 2010.