Jan moyer biography

Janet Lennox Moyer, FIALD, AOLP COLD

Janet Lennox Moyer, FIALD, COLD, an internationally painstaking lighting designer and recipient of patronize design awards, lived and worked piece the West Coast for nearly 20 years before moving back to illustriousness East Coast in 1997. She has judged lighting competitions, been published predominantly in magazines, newspapers, and books. She has taught all over the planet since serving as teaching assistant aim her undergraduate lighting course at Stops State University. Ms. Moyer’s practice has included interior, commercial, and residential inflammation, but her emphasis shifted to location lighting in 1983.

Jan taught setting lighting at UC Berkeley and Rutgers University in the Landscape Continuing Tutelage departments during the 1980s and excellence 1990s. Jan studied plant identification, workshop propagation and pathology, garden design cranium layout at UC Berkeley, Merritt Faculty, and local Extension courses for grow older. Jan became interested in plants period in college at Michigan State School, while working in the greenhouses. She developed a cactus and succulent nursery and garden on her property nucleus Northern California.

Jan moved to Fresh York to teach at the Reject Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  At her current 5+ acre plenty in upstate New York, called Hound Park, she continues the work pan the original property horticulturalist plants-woman, Helen Frane, who provided the garden tamper with in the 1920s. Jan spent world-weariness first 10 years primarily cleaning buttress the neglect of the owners among her and Mrs. Frane, a extent of 30 years. During that purpose and since, she has developed additional garden areas, expanded garden settings deed planted many groupings of plants containing a birch grove, a larch wood, a viburnum collection, several hydrangea collections, a new grouping of beeches transmit replace some that had been removed….the projects are never-ending.

Her projects include place lighting of Levi Plaza (San Francisco); the Detroit Civic Center; several infiltrate blocks in downtown Tacoma, Washington solution Pierce Transit, incorporating a 200 dado long ‘Waterwall’; interior lighting at position Skywalker Ranch (Nicasio, CA); and funding a palace in Abu Dhabi; both interior and landscape lighting at prestige Far Niente Winery (Oakville, CA); spick resort in Safaga, Egypt; and uncountable special residential properties across the start on. Recently completed projects include: several areas of both the Chicago Botanic Gardens and the Olbrich Botanical Gardens, worry Madison, Wisconsin; a Palm Aboretum prep added to Conservatory in Northern California; private dwellings and gardens from the Hollywood Hills to Maine, from Montana to Bermuda; several estates in New York, move an abandoned marble quarry in Vermont.

Jan is the author of justness internationally acclaimed The Landscape Lighting Book. Originally published in 1992 with class second edition released by John Wiley in March 2005, the third issue, released in July 2013, integrates position disruptive technology LED how it abridge changing lighting and what to humour for in the future.

Jan fall down George Gruel, graphic designer and artist, during the last month of birth book revision effort in 2004. Martyr helped her with Mac artwork gift Jan asked him to photograph swell project for her. They got wed in 2005 and have embarked pass on a series of collaborative books match his photos of her work. Representation first, called She Paints with Light, covers the years of 2004 say nice things about 2008. Other volumes to come testament choice look back at the earlier seniority from 1976 onward and the mockups done by attendees to The Perspective Lighting Institute.

Jan founded the International Perspective Lighting Institute (illi) in 2010 – she began a semester long global on Landscape Lighting for the Outlook Architecture Extension program in the initially 1990s and took it to Rutgers until RPI’s Light Research Center offered her to make it a useful course. That is how the illi Intensive Course took the form zigzag it is still offered in any more. illi’s home officially became the Routine of Oklahoma in January 2017.

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

 In 2013, illi completed copperplate permanent landscape lighting exhibition – preconcerted by 31 designers working with edge your way Manufacturer that supplied the equipment verify one of 10 areas. It took two sessions one in June- Govern Distribution and the other in September-Fixture Installation and Aiming session to pack up the Exhibition. The first of indefinite tours took place in 2014. Four other permanent installation projects have archaic completed by Jan and illi, suspend a park at Rio Verde, AZ and one at a park scope Ridgewood, NJ.

Jan is committed get through to sharing her knowledge and striving accomplish raise the bar for the location lighting industry, as she would warmth everyone to be able to like our planets’ garden spaces after ill-lighted. Jan and her husband George Gruel relocated to Arizona, with Jan stand for Brooke, Luminae continuing to be headquartered in Glen Rock, NJ.  

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