Stephan Horn
Stephan Horn did his first lighting-designs and installations already as a student in 1998. Trained to become an architect during the following years by personalities like Peter Zumthor, Mario Botta and Antonio Citterio he had to study again and again the relations of space and natural light.
When he received his degree as an architect by Mario Botta in 2003, he had already won several student competitions and awards for extraordinary projects. One of the awards brought him to Brazil, where he started his professional career immediately in 2003.
Six months later, back to Germany, he went completely into Lighting-Design as his profession. The wide range of projects he does today, started with small-scale retail. Followed by lighting designs for churches and universities. Further he did urban outdoor designs and several well-recognized events like the “Architecture Biennale” Rotterdam, Netherlands with PLDA or the “Architecture Triennial” Darmstadt, Germany as well as a luminale installation in Frankfurt, Germany, during “light & building” 2008.
2007 until 2008 he has been the responsible project manager and lighting designer at BDP-Lighting in Manchester, UK . At that time he was responsible for urban master plans as well as the interior lighting schemes due to RIBA stages, when he developed the lighting for more than 650 ha urban area and 1.394 buildings within a few months at a large-scale.
Currently he is teaching at the University of Geisenheim, Germany, “Lighting-Design for Landscapearchitects”. Meanwhile he’s director of o.pium – office for postindustrial urban matters GmbH, Wiesbaden, D, a lighting design studio, which he established in 2008. He focuses a lot on state of the art lighting such as media façade & content research but als in teh world of new work and AI. His projects frequently become published in national and international magazines.