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

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 2019 | 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

Showlight

Fontainebleau, France. Remote

Title of the speech: “Bringing Theatricality to Architectural Lighting”.
May 5, 2021

Share Architects

Prague, Czech Republic

Title of the speech: “Light matters – Without lighting, would the architecture still have the same impact?”.
October 3, 2019

Hangzhou Zhejiang University of Technology

Hangzhou, China

Title of the speech: “The fourth dimension of the space. From Stage to Architectural Light”
December 20 – 24, 2012

Expo Valposchiavo

Poschiavo, Switzerland

Title of the speech: “Light and wood. Between functionality and atmosphere”
November 3, 2012

Licenses and certifications

GrandMA2 user (DMX)
MA International GmbH

Konnex Partner
Konnex Association

Licence for high-altitude works. (Italian Law)

To Know more

PROJECTS LIST

  • ✨ @poldipezzoli Museum 
“Visconti Venosta” Room – “Raphael Cross” Room. 
Detail of the room featuring the panel "Madonna with Child and Saint John the Baptist" by Pinturicchio, with Christ the Redeemer and the panel "Madonna with Child and Saints" by Zanobi Strozzi in the background.

💡 Museum lighting requires precise calibration of light intensities throughout the rooms. The lighting of the Raphael Cross led to a re-arrangement and fine-tuning of the entire exhibition hall and the works of art.

🌟 Shortlisted for the FX Awards 2024 in the Lighting category 🌟 @fxdesignmag 

Lighting design: @miglioli.m (Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio). 
Set design: @rolla.luca e @alberto.bertini.76. 
Photo: Andrea Ceriani. 
Display case: @bagatti_bronzisti. 
Curatorship: Annalisa Zanni, @federica.manoli and Andrea di Lorenzo. 

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #RaphaelSanzio #museopoldipezzoli #museumlighting #fxawards #artlighting #lightingdesign #artandlighting #museumdesign
  • ✨Processional Cross with Franciscan Saints. Raphael. Tempera on panel (detail). 
c. 1500-1502
@poldipezzoli Museum, Milan

Through the new lighting we designed, the artwork appears brighter and more luminous, resembling a piece of fine goldsmithing. The punched decorations, gilded reliefs, and Raphael's colors now stand out in their full three-dimensionality.

🔎 On the back of the cross, four busts of Franciscan saints are painted within roundels, suggesting that the original destination of the processional cross was a convent of this order.

🌟 Shortlisted for the FX Awards 2024 in the Lighting category 🌟 @fxdesignmag 

Lighting design: @miglioli.m (Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio). 
Set design: @rolla.luca e @alberto.bertini.76. 
Photo: Andrea Ceriani. 
Display case: @bagatti_bronzisti.
Curatorship: Annalisa Zanni, @federica.manoli and Andrea di Lorenzo. 

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #RaphaelSanzio #museopoldipezzoli #museumlighting #fxawards #artlighting #lightingdesign #artandlighting #museumdesign
  • ✨@poldipezzoli Museum, Milan. 
“Visconti Venosta” Room - “The Raphael Cross” Room, featuring in the foreground the "Processional Cross with Franciscan Saints" by Raphael Sanzio.

The Cross, an artwork between painting and sculpture, was placed within an architecture which, through a succession of spaces, gives a sense of depth, recalling the sequences of rooms in noble Renaissance palaces. The paintings, displayed in these rooms, not only underline the depth but are enhanced by a common golden background.

🌟 Shortlisted for the FX Awards 2024 @fxdesignmag in the Lighting category 🌟

Lighting design: @miglioli.m (Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio).
Set design: @rolla.luca e @alberto.bertini.76 
Photo: Andrea Ceriani. 
Display case: @bagatti_bronzisti
Curatorship: Annalisa Zanni, @federica.manoli and Andrea di Lorenzo. 

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #RaphaelSanzio #museopoldipezzoli #museumlighting #fxawards #artlighting #lightingdesign #artandlighting #museumdesign
  • ✨Roundels of the Virgin Mary and Saint Peter. Raphael. 
c. 1500-02. Pen and brown ink over stylus underdrawing. Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

🖋️ This autograph drawing featuring the half-length figures of the Virgin and Saint Peter highlights how Raphael often created processional crosses during his adolescence. Moreover, the Berlin sheet could be a preparatory sketch for the processional cross housed at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum.
🎨 Through the style and quality of the brushstrokes, the attribution to Raphael Sanzio has been proposed.

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #Raphael #RoundelsoftheVirginMary #art #Kupferstichkabinett #artisticprocess #drawing #museumart #museopoldipezzoli
  • ✨ Processional Cross with Franciscan Saints. Raphael. Tempera on panel (detail). 
c. 1500-1502
Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan

Through the new lighting we designed, the artwork appears brighter and more luminous, resembling a piece of fine goldsmithing. The punched decorations, gilded reliefs, and Raphael's colors now stand out in their full three-dimensionality.

🔎 On the back of the cross, four busts of Franciscan saints are painted within roundels, suggesting that the original destination of the processional cross was a convent of this order.

🌟 Shortlisted for the FX Awards 2024 in the Lighting category 🌟

Lighting design: Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio. 
Set design: Luca Rolla e Alberto Bertini. 
Photo: Andrea Ceriani. 
Display case: Bagatti Bronzisti. 
Curatorship: Annalisa Zanni, Federica Manoli and Andrea di Lorenzo. 

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #RaphaelSanzio #museopoldipezzoli #museumlighting #fxawards 
#artlighting #lightingdesign #artandlighting #museumdesign
  • ✨ "Processional Cross with Franciscan Saints" by Raphael; in the background, reflected in the glass, the "Adoration of the Child" by Fra Bartolomeo della Porta.
New room setup and lighting design. Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan

As through our new lighting the color rendering of the golden surface of the cross differed from that of the frames of the paintings displayed in the room, special filters were used to shape the light spectrum so as to harmonize the warm tones of all the golds.

🌟 Shortlisted lighting project for the FX Awards 2024 🌟

Picture 2 - Explanatory Sketch of Light Reflections with Special Film
Hand drawing by Marco Miglioli ✍️✨

Lighting design: Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio. 
Set design: Luca Rolla e Alberto Bertini. 
Photo: Marco Miglioli. 
Display case: Bagatti Bronzisti. 
Curatorship: Annalisa Zanni, Federica Manoli and Andrea di Lorenzo. 

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #RaphaelSanzio #museopoldipezzoli #museumlighting #fxawards #artlighting #lightingdesign #artandlighting #museumdesign
  • “Geo Poletti’s Still Life” 
March, 1 2019 – March 24, 2019
Palazzo Reale in Milan

Detail a custom exhibition wall

Lighting design: Marco Miglioli. 
Exhibition design: Luca Rolla e Alberto Bertini with Andrea Tregnago. Photo: Andrea Ceriani

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #stilllifepaintings #seventeenthcenturyart #museumlighting #palazzorealemilano
  • “Geo Poletti’s Still Life” 
March, 1 2019 – March 24, 2019
Palazzo Reale in Milan

Objects come to life in a space defined by solids and voids, light and shadow and take on a meaning that goes beyond their practical function.

We wanted to remember their original and “familiar” location. Some unadorned rooms of the “Palazzo Reale” were therefore chosen for their arrangement, in which the lighting of the paintings gives maximum prominence to the works, allowing to half see the rooms, although very beautiful, just from a glimpse.

Lighting design: Marco Miglioli. 
Exhibition design: Luca Rolla e Alberto Bertini with Andrea Tregnago. Photo: Andrea Ceriani

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #stilllifepaintings #seventeenthcenturyart #museumlighting #palazzorealemilano
  • “Geo Poletti’s Still Life” 
March, 1 2019 – March 24, 2019
Palazzo Reale in Milan

“Room 108”. Here, as in other rooms, art works and panels are more illuminated than an architecture that remains in dim light

The exhibition highlights the works as protagonists of their message, without the viewer being distracted by the presence of furnishings and decorations.

Lighting design: Marco Miglioli. 
Exhibition design: Luca Rolla e Alberto Bertini with Andrea Tregnago. Photo: Andrea Ceriani

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #stilllifepaintings #seventeenthcenturyart #museumlighting #palazzorealemilano