ON THE BOARDS
RESIDENTIAL
Madison Square Park Residence, New York, NY.
5th Avenue Residence, New York, NY.
West 10th Street Residence, New York, NY.
Landscape, Chappaqua, NY.
Landscape, East Hampton, NY.
LANDSCAPE
Notre Dame Sculpture Garden, South Bend, IN. Landscape Architect, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.
Queen Anne Square, Newport, RI. Architect, Maya Lin.
East Midtown Waterfront and Esplanade, New York, NY. Landscape Architect, Aecom.
University of Pennsylvania: Shoemaker Green, Philadelphia, PA. Landscape Architect, Andropogon Associates.
Syracuse Connective Corridor, Syracuse, NY. Landscape Architect, Olin Studio.
Brooklyn Navy Yard Vistors’ Center and Exhibit, New York, NY. Architect, Beyer Blinder Belle.
Mill River Park, Stamford, CT. Landscape Architect, Olin Studio.
Thunder Bay Waterfront, Thunder Bay, Ontario. Landscape Architect, Brook McIlroy/Pace.
Ellicott Streetscape, Buffalo, NY. Architect, nArchitects; Landscape Architect, Scape.
The Battery, New York, NY. Landscape Architect, Quennell Rothschild & Partners.
Far Rockaway Park, New York, NY. Landscape Architect, Quennell Rothschild & Partners.
BUILDINGS
Harlem Stage Gatehouse, New York, NY. Architect, John G. Waite Associates.
Brooklyn Public Library Renovations and Information Commons, New York, NY. Architect, Toshiko Mori.
Strand Theater, New York, NY. Architect, Leeser Architecture.
The High Line Facility, New York, NY. Architect, Beyer Blinder Belle. Design Architect, Renzo Piano.
ART
Bear Canyon Bicycle/Pedestrian Bridge, Albuquerque, NM.
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AWARDS
Excellence in Design Award 2010, Public Design Commission of the City of New York. Strand Theatre, Brooklyn, New York.
Building Brooklyn Award 2009, Landscape and Open Space. “This Way,” New York, New York.
Lumen Citation and Regional Award 2009, Illuminating Engineering Society. “This Way,” New York, New York.
Design Award; Wayfinding 2009, Society of Environmental Graphic Design. “This Way,” New York, New York.
Project Honor Award 2008, Obra Architects. “Beatfuse!”, Long Island City, New York.
Project Honor Award 2008, Lesser Architects. Project World Mamouth and Pemafrost Museum, Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Russian Federation).
Top Honor Award 2006, The Waterfront Center. Battery Bosque, New York, NY
Honor Award 2006, American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter. Battery Bosque, New York, NY
Lumen Citation and Regional Award 2005, Illuminating Engineering Society. Icepool, Lapland, Finland.
Special Citation for an Urban Element 2005, Boston Society of Architects, AIA: Financial District Streetscape, New York, NY
Citation for Design 2005, Boston Society of Architects, AIA; School of the Holy Child Library, New York, NY
Lumen Citation 2003, Illuminating Engineering Society. Ecliptic/Rosa Parks Circle, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
PUBLICATIONS
Sense of the City: An Alternative Approach to Urbanism;2005 Canadian Center for Architecture; “From Safe to Lively Streets” by Linnaea Tillett (Download PDF)
Professional Lighting Design , November/December, 2004. “The Snow Show, Lapland/FIN.”
Professional Lighting Design, Jan/Feb 2003. “Ecliptic Park, Public Art as Urban Revitalization” by Linnaea Tillett and Kate Gardner (Download PDF)
Professional Lighting Design, Jan/Feb 2003. “A Social Activity Approach to Design.” by Linnaea Tillett and Kate Gardner (Download PDF)
LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS
Goethe-Institut New York at Cabinet Magazine: Brooklyn, NY: Bulbs, Tubes, Beams, and Cobraheads, 2011.
Professional Lighting Design Convention: Madrid, Spain; Grounding practice: Speculations on Affect and Environment, 2011.
Institute for Urban Design: Urban Design Week 2011, New York, NY; How can the city be better illuminated?, 2011.
Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Convention: Mexico City, Mexico; In-Site, 2011.
Light Symposium 2010: Stockholm Sweden; Why Light, 2010.
The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign: School of Architecture; Under Light, 2010.
Orensanz Summer Museum: Conversations at the Island; Matter/Light, 2009.
Modern House Day Symposium: Modernism Moves Forward; Under Light, 2009.
Asia Society: Mumbai, India; Under Light: the Psychology, Aesthetics and Sustainability of Luminous Space, 2009.
AEC World Expo, 361˚ Conference, Mumbai, India; Lighting & Urban Initiatives, 2009.
Fête des Lumières of Lyon; The Emotional City, 2008.
The Architectural League of New York; New York Designs 2008: Threshold, 2008.
The Feltman Lecture Series: Cooper Union; City Night: Altered States, 2008.
The Battery Bosque; Recapturing Nature’s Abundance, 2007.
The Architectural League of New York; Visual Processes and Architectural Environments, 2007.
Canadian Center for Architecture; Urban Fear: What’s Light Got to Do with It, 2006.
Museum of the City of New York; Urban Fear, 2006.
Columbia University; Waterfront: Edge or Surface?, 2006.
European Lighting Design Association; Revitalization of Industrial Sites and Lighting Design + Sustainability, 2004.
International Facilities Managers Association; Lighting and Conservation, 2003.
Parsons the New School for Design; Lighting the Landscape, 1999.
National Pedestrian Conference; Lighting for Aesthetics and Safety-Achieving a Walkable Community, 1998.
Institute of Traffic Engineers Conference; Transportation and Sustainable Communities, 1997.
New Jersey Transportation Conference; TransAction, 1997.
National Pedestrian Conference, 1997.
PRESS
“Accumulations” by Julia Czerniak, New Geographies, 3: Urbanisms of Color, Gareth Doherty, Editor, 2011.
Garden Design, July/August 2011. “Let There Be Night“
Railway Interiors International, June 2011. “Style and Substance”
Architectural Lighting, March/April 2011, “Pool on the Water.”
Architectural Record, April 1, 2010, “Recounting Modernism.”
Town & Country, February 2010. “A Switched on Expert.”
New York Magazine: The Cut, January 7, 2010.
Indian Architect & Builder, November 2009. “Rethinking Lighting Design.”
Architect’s Newspaper, October 21, 2009. “Lighting Feature: Tillett Lighting Design.”
North American Design, Fall 2009. “Tillett Lighting Design Profile”.
New York Times: Lens “Sight/Site”, August 25, 2009. “This Way.”
New York Times: City Room, July 2009. “Answers About Public Art in New York.”
Solid State Lighting Design, July 2009. “Brooklyn Bridge Project Frames Thoughts on Ways to Eliminate Over-light.”
Lighting India, March/April 2009. “Lighting a Luxury Train for the 21st Century.“
Decorators Home, February 10, 2009. Milne-Ojito Residence.
Washington Spaces, Winter 2009. “When Every Inch Counts.”
Enlighter.org, November/December 2008. Featured Designer.
Professional Lighting Design, October-November 2008. “A Goodbye to Shadows.”
Architectural Lighting, September/October 2008. “This Way: Brooklyn Bridge Installation.”
Architectural Record, August 1, 2008. “This Way.”
Architect’s Newspaper, May 22, 2008. “Walk This Way.”
ForbesLife, March 2008. “Night Light.”
The New York Times, January 2008. “Making Dark Rooms Glow.”
Lighting and Sound, December 2007. “Café Carlyle Swings Again, Thanks to Lighting/Sound Upgrade.”
Architectural Lighting, November/December 2007. “125th Anniversary Gala.”
NYT: Louis Poulsen Magazine of Lighting and Architecture, Issue 585, 2007. “The Adventure Returns.”
designbuild-network.com, October 2007. “Innovations Come to Light.”
Architecture Plus (Dubai/London), Volume 15. “A New Kind of White.”
New York Magazine. “Fantasy Island.”
Professional Lighting Design, May-June 2007. “Nighttime Rendezvous with the Statue of Liberty.”
Lighting Design (Romania), April-June 2007. “Battery Bosque: sau farmecul discret al luminii.”
Dwell, September 2007. “Henry Urbach: Curatorial Explorer.”
Architectural Record, February 2007. “Battery Bosque”.
New York Magazine, February 2007. “Space Shifters”.
Architectural Lighting, Jan/Feb 2007. “Light and the Urban Nightscape”.
Architect’s Newspaper, January 17, 2007. Lighting Feature.
AND rivista di architetture, cittá e architetti, December 2006, “Tillett Lighting: segni di luce;” “Sensi urbani.”
Lighting India, May-June 2006, “Friends Meeting House”.
Architectural Record, April 2006. “Box House, Colorado”
Landscape Architecture, August 2005. “A Better Battery Bosque.”
The New York Times, June 2005. “Grove at the Battery is Ready to Reopen.”
Illuminator (Russia), June 2005, (Ecliptic and Icepool).
Professional Lighting Design, November/December, 2004. “The Snow Show in Lapland /FIN.”
Architecture, October 2004. “The Boat in the Woods”
The New York Times, July 2004. “Currents.”
Architectural Record, May 2004. “The Snow Show, Finland”
Architectural Record, February 2003. “Friends Meeting House: New York City.”
Metropolis, March 2002. “Water Works.”
Martha Stewart Living, February 2002. “Light Bulbs.”
Lighting & Interiors, June/July 2001. “Lighting Designer in the World, Linnaea Tillett.”
To The Trade, December/January 2001. “Well Lit, The Art of Illumination.”
Lighting Your Community, 1999. Lighting information pamplet for the New York City Department of Transportation.
Design Times, February/March 1998. “Designing with Color and Light.”
Places, Summer 1997/Vol. 11/No. 2. “Nighttime Lighting and Community Character.”