About

Marco Miglioli

Light is a fundamental element of architectural space, a pillar of built space.

My professional choices plunge their roots in my passion for theatre, scenography and art. I therefore trained both through an artistic and scenographic use and through a technical use of light and since my first works I have tried to integrate these two souls.

It is precisely to the relationship between light and architecture that I have directed my interests since the years in which I attended the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio in Switzerland, where I graduated with the architect Peter Zumthor. I then developed my skills by working in Spain with the theater company “La Fura dels Baus” and in Milan with Marco Filibeck, then “lighting director” of the “Teatro alla Scala” of Milan. For eleven years I collaborated with the “Ferrara Palladino Lightscape” studio.

In summary, my work consists of illuminating an architecture or a work by trying to interpret it, to tell a story, to suggest emotions, therefore, to choose what to put in light and what in shadow, not only in large works but also in domestic environments.

Order of Architects
of the Province of Milan
(Italy).
Section A-a: Architect

Association
of Lighting
Professional (Italy).
Professional Member

The Association for
Lighting Production and
Design (UK).
Professional Member

Italian Lighting
Association (Italy).
Professional Member

Illuminating Engineering
Society.
Full Member

DarkSky International
Member and Advocate

Awards

BUILD Architecture Awards 2025 | Shortlisted

Shortlist for the best Architectural Lighting Design Studio (go to prize)

LIT Lighting Design Awards 2024 | winner

Lighting design for the “Raphael’s Cross” (go to prize)

FX International Interior Design Awards 2024 | Shortlisted project

Lighting design for the “Raphael’s Cross Room” (go to prize)

LIT Awards 2022 | Winner

Lighting design for the exhibition “golden threads and silk paintings” (go to prize)

LIT Awards 2019 | Honorable Mention

Lighting design for the exhibition “Romanticism” (go to prize)

DARC Awards 2029 | Selected project

Lighting design for the exhibition “Romanticism” (go to prize)

Rosco Gobo Design Contest 2018 | Finalist

Finalist for the design of a new gobo (go to contest)

Conferences and classes

IES 24. The Lighting conference

New York, U.S.A.

Title of the paper: “Transforming museum spaces into a sensory experience. How changes in perception will lead to a new lighting design“
August 15 – 17, 2024

AIDI XXI National Congress

Bologna, Italy

Title of the paper: “Transforming museum spaces into a sensory experience”
June 24 – 25, 2024

Domus Academy

Milan, Italy

Speaker at the module on lighting design in the short course “Retail Vision Design”.
Title of the speech: “colours, lighting and interior design strategies for retails”
April 26 – 29, 2023