An Interview with Florence Lam
Florence Lam
Designer
UK // Arup
Lives in:
London
Born in:
Hong Kong
Qualifications:
BA (Cantab.) MA (Cantab.) Engineering, MSc in Architecture: Light and Lighting
Started working with light in:
1989
Offices worked at:
Arup
Now works at:
Arup
As well as being:
A mother, wife, daughter...
Professional membership:
CEng FIET FCIBSE FSLL
Has been awarded:
- Lighting Design Awards Winner 2016 – Design Practice of the Year
- Asian Lighting Design Awards – Gold Award Winner 2016
- The SLL Lighting Award 2014
- Lighting Designer of the Year 2013
- Lighting Design Awards Winner 2013 – Daylight Category
- International Association of Lighting Designers Award of Excellence 2010
- International Association of Lighting Designers Award of Sustainability 2010
- International Association of Lighting Designers Award Special Citation, 2003
- Distinction at the CIBSE Young Lighters of the Year, 1991
- Howard Branston Student Lighting Design Award, 1991
Loves:
Travelling, googling, pilates and zumba.
“We need to communicate to female designers, if they have reached a certain path in their career, that it is their role to speak up. They have got so much to give. They should do it – not for themselves but for the next generation.”
Some of Florence’s work:
