Incontroluce

Light has got a voice: Incontroluce, the six-monthly magazine published by iGuzzini for the first time in March 2000. Incontroluce offers a space for discussion on lighting issues to all those who are concerned with the quality of light (and with its application to reality).

Incontroluce 21

Editorial by Adolfo Guzzini

In 2009, iGuzzini began celebrating its first half-century in business.
The company was founded back in 1959 by my elder brothers Raimondo, Virgilio and Giovanni, and we the younger ones - Giuseppe and Giannunzio - were soon involved and playing our part in its expansion. Trading initially under the name of Harvey Guzzini, the company was among the leading standard-bearers of the Made in Italy revolution - indeed of the whole culture embodied by Italian design.
I take great pride in seeing how far we have come since those early days.

We made innovative choices, most notably that basic decision taken during the 1970s, to switch from the manufacture of home lighting products to engineered lighting systems: we were among the first to raise awareness in Italy as to the importance of light in adding value to architecture, and one of the first to insist on the need for lighting design and promote the profession of Lighting Designer.

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The Marches
. 1959

Design
. Questions and answers: Leni Schwendinger

Projects
. The Sala dei Mesi in the Palazzo Schifanoia
. Aquaniene
. Frank O. Gehry since 1997
. Pierre-Joël Bonté High School, Higher Institute for building
. Dot Baires Shopping
. Pangu Plaza Hotel
. Lights on the Aalborg waterfront
. The Dhoby Ghaut Park
. Blue Water Black Magic
. An award-winning wine store

Corporate culture
. Zaha Hadid at Padua
. New LED fixtures for street and public lighting
. 4th edition of the Architecture Competition Sponsored by “Pasajes de Arquitectura y Crítica” and iGuzzini illuminazione
. Dancing with Light: “Framed”
. Sharing knowledge
. LightMapping NYC
. “LED - Light Exhibition Design”, 2009 edition