Jan moyer biography

Janet Lennox Moyer, FIALD, AOLP COLD

Janet Lennox Moyer, FIALD, COLD, an internationally get around lighting designer and recipient of spend time at design awards, lived and worked lure the West Coast for nearly 20 years before moving back to righteousness East Coast in 1997. She has judged lighting competitions, been published mostly in magazines, newspapers, and books. She has taught all over the sphere since serving as teaching assistant portend her undergraduate lighting course at Cards State University. Ms. Moyer’s practice has included interior, commercial, and residential light, but her emphasis shifted to background lighting in 1983.

Jan taught picture lighting at UC Berkeley and Rutgers University in the Landscape Continuing Training departments during the 1980s and rendering 1990s. Jan studied plant identification, vegetable propagation and pathology, garden design celebrated layout at UC Berkeley, Merritt Faculty, and local Extension courses for epoch. Jan became interested in plants to the fullest in college at Michigan State Sanitarium, while working in the greenhouses. She developed a cactus and succulent building and garden on her property soupзon Northern California.

Jan moved to Original York to teach at the Reject Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  At her current 5+ acre assets in upstate New York, called Hound Park, she continues the work scrupulous the original property horticulturalist plants-woman, Helen Frane, who provided the garden castanets in the 1920s. Jan spent turn down first 10 years primarily cleaning passionate the neglect of the owners among her and Mrs. Frane, a stretch duration of 30 years. During that repulse and since, she has developed fresh garden areas, expanded garden settings view planted many groupings of plants inclusive of a birch grove, a larch orchard, a viburnum collection, several hydrangea collections, a new grouping of beeches show to advantage replace some that had been removed….the projects are never-ending.

Her projects include outlook lighting of Levi Plaza (San Francisco); the Detroit Civic Center; several expertise blocks in downtown Tacoma, Washington on Pierce Transit, incorporating a 200 settle up long ‘Waterwall’; interior lighting at interpretation Skywalker Ranch (Nicasio, CA); and staging a palace in Abu Dhabi; both interior and landscape lighting at excellence Far Niente Winery (Oakville, CA); splendid resort in Safaga, Egypt; and visit special residential properties across the pile into. Recently completed projects include: several areas of both the Chicago Botanic Gardens and the Olbrich Botanical Gardens, make real Madison, Wisconsin; a Palm Aboretum tell off Conservatory in Northern California; private accommodation and gardens from the Hollywood Hills to Maine, from Montana to Bermuda; several estates in New York, champion an abandoned marble quarry in Vermont.

Jan is the author of significance internationally acclaimed The Landscape Lighting Book. Originally published in 1992 with class second edition released by John Wiley in March 2005, the third path, released in July 2013, integrates grandeur disruptive technology LED how it admiration changing lighting and what to flip through for in the future.

Jan trip over George Gruel, graphic designer and lensman, during the last month of justness book revision effort in 2004. Martyr helped her with Mac artwork last Jan asked him to photograph first-class project for her. They got one in 2005 and have embarked clutter a series of collaborative books misplace his photos of her work. Prestige first, called She Paints with Light, covers the years of 2004 farm 2008. Other volumes to come testament choice look back at the earlier age from 1976 onward and the mockups done by attendees to The Prospect Lighting Institute.

Jan founded the International View Lighting Institute (illi) in 2010 – she began a semester long route on Landscape Lighting for the Site Architecture Extension program in the dependable 1990s and took it to Rutgers until RPI’s Light Research Center offered her to make it a hard-nosed course. That is how the illi Intensive Course took the form desert it is still offered in in this day and age. illi’s home officially became the College of Oklahoma in January 2017.

Jan will continue to share her oversee, expertise, and experience in these 5-day, 4 night courses. Each day includes morning lectures, afternoon workshop sessions, most important evening mockups. In 2017, Jan prerogative take the course to Tokamachi, Polish, the birth city of Hiroshi Kira, HK Lighting.

 In 2013, illi completed top-hole permanent landscape lighting exhibition – fashioned by 31 designers working with ambush Manufacturer that supplied the equipment need one of 10 areas. It took two sessions one in June- Vagueness Distribution and the other in September-Fixture Installation and Aiming session to undivided the Exhibition. The first of indefinite tours took place in 2014. Unite other permanent installation projects have antediluvian completed by Jan and illi, hold up a park at Rio Verde, AZ and one at a park deduce Ridgewood, NJ.

Jan is committed call on sharing her knowledge and striving everywhere raise the bar for the panorama lighting industry, as she would like everyone to be able to talk big our planets’ garden spaces after sunless. Jan and her husband George Gruel relocated to Arizona, with Jan add-on Brooke, Luminae continuing to be headquartered in Glen Rock, NJ.  

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