Studio

Marco Miglioli

Poco dopo essermi laureato in architettura presso l’Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (USI) con i professori Peter Zumthor e Mario Botta, mi sono interessato alla relazione che intercorre tra luce e spazio costruito e a come l’illuminazione possa modificare la percezione e suscitare emozioni. 

Durante i miei studi universitari ho vissuto due anni in Spagna dove ho lavorato come illuminotecnico e scenografo per la compagnia teatrale La Fura dels Baus e come architetto presso lo studio Mias Arcquitectes. Conclusa l’università e tornato a Milano, ho approfondito le mie competenze sull’illuminazione, dapprima lavorando in teatro e seguendo Marco Filibeck allora datore luci del Teatro alla Scala e successivamente, parallelamente alla mia attività di libero professionaista, lavorando per 12 anni con lo studio Ferrara Palladino Lightscape dove ho collaborato alla realizzaizone di grandi progetti. 
Mi sono quindi formato sia attraverso un uso artistico e scenografico sia attraverso un uso tecnico della luce e fin dai primi lavori ho cercato d’integrare queste due anime. 

Ho preso parte di giurie di valutazione di progetti d’illuminazione legati al patrimonio storico e artístico e sono stato “giurato di merito” per gli IES Awards. Sono “advisory member” del Comitato Normativo d’Illuminazione per Musei e Gallerie d’arte della IES e membro della Divisione 3 del Comitato Nazionale della CIE (Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage).

Ordine degli Architetti della provincia di Milano. (ITA)
Albo Architetti sez. A

Associazione Professionisti dell’Illuminazione. (ITA)
Socio Ordinario

International Council Of Museum
Socio Individuale

Associazione Italiana d’Illuminazione. (ITA)
Socio Individuale

Illuminating Engineering Society.
Full Member

DarkSky International.
Member and Advocate

ArchiLight Studio

“Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio” nasce nel 2023 come evoluzione dello studio di architettura e illuminazione “Marco Miglioli” fondato nel 2012 e dalla collaborazione con designers, artisti e ricercatori. La progettazione, svolta all’interno dello studio, tende a rafforzare le connessioni tra arteteatroarchitettura scienze naturali cercando di fonderle sia attraverso un uso artistico e scenografico che tecnico della luce. L’iluminazione del paesaggio antropizzato (dall’edificio, al parco, all’opera d’arte o all’allestimento) nasce dal legame stretto con il luogo e dalla responsabilità verso l’opera illuminata.

Illuminare un’architettura (da grandi infrastrutture a piccoli ambienti domestici) o un’opera significa por noi operare su diversi piani:

  • Cercare d’interpretare lo spazio e il paesaggio, di raccontare una storia che trascende il mero oggetto costruito, di suggerire emozioni, quindi di scegliere che cosa porre in luce e che cosa in ombra;
  •  Proteggere il patrimonio culturale da un uso improprio della luce e al contempo valorizzare il contesto locale e culturale;
  • Favorire il benessere dell’individuo e salvaguardare la biodiversità attraverso la luce;
  • Sensibilizzare attraverso i nostri progetti ad un uso responsabile e sociale della luce.

Come parte di questo approccio, uno dei pilastri del lavoro dello studio consiste infatti nella ricerca nel campo dell’illuminazione esplorando nuove frontiere (come la fosforescenza e la bioluminescenza) per sviluppare sistemi d’illuminazione sostenibiliaccessibili e rinnovabili. Altri campi di ricerca includono la risposta del corpo umano agli stimoli luminosi (illuminazione circadiana o cambiamenti percettivi legati all’invecchiamento o a déficit visivi), piani per evitare che la luce creare squilibri nell’ ecosistema naturale (studi sullo spettro della luce in funzione della fauna e flora locale) e strategie per mitigare i danni indotti dalla luce sulle opere d’arte e sui manufatti storici e artistici (edifici o monumenti). 

Premi e Riconoscimenti

German Design Award 2026 | Vincitore

selezione ufficiale per l’illuminazione della “Croce di Raffaello” (vai al premio)

Sfida Globale per l’Applicazione di Tecnologie Innovative per l’Illuminazione dei Servizi Igienici nei Campi Profughi | Vincitore

Concorso indetto nel 2025 da IRC e Wazoku per la progettazione di un sistema innovativo d’illuminazione per i servizi igenico sanitari dei campi profughi (vai al premio)

BUILD Architecture Awards 2025 | Vincitore

Miglior illuminazione di esposizioni per la “Croce di Raffaello” (vai al premio)

BUILD Architecture Awards 2025 | Vincitore

Miglior Studio d’Illuminazione e ricerca innovativa e sostenibile (vai al premio)

LIT Lighting Design Awards 2024 | Primo Premio

Illuminazione della “Croce di Raffaello” (vai al premio)

FX International Interior Design Awards 2024 | Finalista

Illuminazione della “Croce di Raffaello” (vai al premio)

LIT Awards 2022 | Primo Premio

Illuminazione della mostra “Fili d’oro e dipinti di seta” (vai al premio)

LIT Awards 2019 | Menzione d’onore

Illuminazione della mostra “Romanticismo” (vai al premio)

Darc Awards 2019 | Progetto selezionato

Illuminazione della mostra “Romanticismo” (vai al premio)

Rosco Gobo Design Contest 2018 | Finalista

Finalista per il disegno di un nuovo gobo (vai al contest)

Conferenze e lezioni

Lega Navale Italiana

Milano, Italia

Relatore ai moduli: “Segnali luminosi” e “Sicurezza” nel corso per il conseguimento della “Patente di abilitazione al comando di unità da diporto”
2019 – presente

POLIMI Graduate School of Management

Milano, Italia

Relatore alla tavola rotonda sulla ricerca tecnologica durante il convegno “A day of Innovation” organizzato da Wazoku e BlueThink con A2A
19 giugno 20125

Showlight, 25

Digione, Francia

Titolo dell’intervento: “Things changes according on how they are illuminated.”
19 – 22 maggio 2025

IES 24. The Lighting Conference

New York, U.S.A.

Titolo dell’intervento: “Transforming Museum spaces into a sensory experience. How changes in perception will lead to a new lighting design.”
15 – 17 agosto 2024

AIDI, XXI Congresso Nazionale

Bologna, Italia

Titolo dell’intervento: “Trasformare gli spazi mussali in un’esperienza sensoriale”
24 – 25 aprile 2024

Domus Academy

Milano, Italia

Relatore al modulo sulla luce nel corso breve “Retail Vision – Design”
Titolo dell’intervento: “colours, lighting and interior design strategies for retails”
26 – 29 aprile 2023

Showlight, 21

Fontainebleau, Francia. Da remoto

Titolo dell’intervento “Bringing Theatricality to Architectural Lighting”
5 maggio 2021

Share Architects

Praga, Repubblica Ceca

Titolo dell’intervento “Light matters – Without lighting, would the architecture still have the same impact?”
3 ottobre 2019

Hangzhou Zhejiang University of Technology

Hangzhou, Cina

Titolo dell’intervento “The fourth dimension of the space. From Stage to Architectural Light”
20 – 24 dicembre 2012

Expo Valposchiavo

Poschiavo, Svizzera

Titolo dell’intervento “Luce e Legno. Tra funzionalità e atmosfera”
3 novembre 2012

Licenze e certificazioni

GrandMA2 user (DMX)
MA International GmbH

Konnex Partner
Konnex Association

Vectorworks Core Associate
Vectorworks

Licenza per lavori in quota. D.Lgs 81/08

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ELENCO LAVORI

  • ✏️ Sketches of some lantern settings. Hand drawing by Marco Miglioli

“Phluò” 
This phosphorescent lamp is a self-charging light source💡, resistant to harsh weather 🌧️, impact 💥, and vandalism 🚫. It can be made in just a few hours ⏱️, even by non-specialists, using easily available materials — which means it can also offer opportunities for social inclusion and empowerment among displaced communities.
It can of course be used individually or combined with others to illuminate larger areas.

✨ “As humanitarian needs constantly grow and resources shrink,” - reads the award motivation - the lamp combines innovation with essential cost efficiency, needed to implement on a large scale […]. The simple sustainable designs make them usable in the most difficult conditions (with very limited access to technology)”. Thanks to its modularity and durability, Phluò can be applied in housing, schools, emergency medical facilities, and outdoor pathways.

🌍 The “Phluò” project is an opportunity to explore a new form of low-cost, sustainable lighting with a real-world application - not just theoretical - bringing light where it’s needed! 
We are proud to have developed this project first of all because of its ethical and social purpose and because it’s a highly sustainable - and sustainability also represents social responsibility! ✨

Lighting and design project: Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio & Sapiens Design Studio; 
Client: international Rescue Committee;
Organisation: Wazoku, with the support of Airbel Impact Lab, Sea Freight Labs, Pledge 1%.

#phosphorescence #marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #resilientlighting #IRC #wazoku #refugeecamps
  • 💡 Prototype of the “Phluò” phosphorescent lamp.

It doesn’t need electricity to light up a small space ⚡, 
It shines for 12 hours 💡, 
It lasts for more than 25 years 🌍,
And it costs only 5 euros 💶.

“Phluò” is the name of the modular phosphorescent lamp prototype with which we won the competition “Application of Phosphorescence Technology for Toilet Lighting in Refugee Camps” promoted by IRC (International Rescue Committee) and Wazoku.

The aim of the competition was to:

“Identify sustainable and innovative solutions to make toilets for women and girls in refugee camps or settlements for internally displaced people safer and more comfortable, through the use of phosphorescent lighting.”

The result was a lamp with a simple and sustainable design, which can also be used in the most difficult conditions and where access to technology is limited.

🌍 The “Phluò” project is an opportunity to explore a new form of low-cost, sustainable lighting with a real-world application - not just theoretical - bringing light where it’s needed! 
We are proud to have developed this project first of all because of its ethical and social purpose and because it’s a highly sustainable - and sustainability also represents social responsibility! ✨

Lighting and design project: Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio & Sapiens Design Studio; 
Client: international Rescue Committee;
Organisation: Wazoku, with the support of Airbel Impact Lab, Sea Freight Labs, Pledge 1%.
 
#phosporescence #marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #resilientlighting #IRC #wazoku #refugeecamps
  • ✨ “Phluò” is our project, based on phosphorescent lighting, winner of the IRC and Wazoku challenge: “Application of Phosphorescent Technology for Toilet Lighting in Refugee Camps”!

Designed for resilience, it brings light where it’s most needed, in both climate 🌪️ and social 🌍 emergency situations.

🌍 The “Phluò” project is an opportunity to explore a new form of low-cost, sustainable lighting with a real-world application - not just theoretical - bringing light where it’s needed! 
We are proud to have developed this project first of all because of its ethical and social purpose and because it’s a highly sustainable - and sustainability also represents social responsibility! ✨

Lighting and design project: Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio & @sapiensdesign; 
Client: @rescueorg International Rescue Committee;
Organisation: @wazokuhq, with the support of Airbel Impact Lab, Sea Freight Labs, Pledge 1%.

#phosporescence #marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #resilientlighting #IRC #Wazoku #refugeecamps
  • ✨ Showlight 25 ✨
 A conference on theatrical lighting (and beyond), held every four years in a different city... This time, it was Dijon's turn!

🎤 “Thinks change According on how they are illuminated”
On stage at Showlight 25, I shared my experience through a story that weaves together theatre and architecture.
My talk focused on how architecture can change over time depending on variations in lighting, and how we might treat built spaces and artworks as if they were theatres, where light not only reveals, but guides and becomes part of the narrative, shaping tension, silence, and memory.

It was a unique opportunity to exchange reflections and research with professionals from all over the world, who, like me, see light not just as a tool, but as a true language.

🙏 Thank you to Showlight for inviting me, to the entire committee for organising such a rich and well-curated event, and to all the speakers and attendees for the inspiring exchange of ideas, to everyone who listened, asked questions, and shared thoughts.

📷 pictures by © Jean Nguyen, Courtesy of Showlight

#Showlight2025 #marcomiglioli #archilightstudio
  • ✨ Showlight 25 ✨
 A conference on theatrical lighting (and beyond), held every four years in a different city... This time, it was Dijon's turn!

🎤 “Things change according on how they are illuminated”

A journey through projects where light shapes space, time, and the relationship between audience and scene.

🎭 My talk focused on the parallels between how lighting is used in architecture and in theatre to create different “scenes” – evoking both emotion and memory.

🙏 Grateful to Showlight for the invitation, to the entire committee for curating such an inspiring programme, and to all the speakers and participants for the generous exchange of ideas.

#Showlight2025 #marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #museumlighting #stagelighting #architecturallighting #artlighting #lightingdesign
#LightingCommunity #ProfessionalsOnStage #InternationalDesign #LightCulture
  • ✨ Showlight 25 ✨
 A conference on theatrical lighting (and beyond), held every four years in a different city... This time, it was Dijon's turn!

🗓️ Three days of stories, experiences, workshops and visits. An exchange of ideas, visions and a lot of passion for our craft.

🎤 My talk, “Things change according on how they are illuminated”, explored how light can transform architecture and generate new ways of inhabiting space, treating buildings, artworks and environments as if they were theatrical scenes, in a state of constant transformation.

🙌 It was a real pleasure to share the stage with such talented professionals and creatives from around the world, and to listen to so many inspiring talks.

📷 pictures by © Jean Nguyen, Courtesy of Showlight

#Showlight2025 #marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #museumlighting #stagelighting #architecturallighting #artlighting #lightingdesign
  • From sketch to construction

a small lantern, custom-made in bronze, composed of geometric solids treated with different finishes, recalls an object of Milanese design. It is reminiscent of those lanterns found in many staircases of Italian noble palaces.

Lighting design: Cinzia Ferrara e Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio. 
Client: Fondazione Pini
Restoration Work: Laura Menegotto. 
Photo: Andrea-Rossetti. 
Bronze lantern fabrication: Bagatti Bronzisti. 
Curatorship: Marco Garegnani, Silvia Bolamperti, Francesca Zaja and Eleonora Rosso

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #LightingDesign #FondazionePini #Milan #LightAndSpace #ArchitecturalLighting #lightcraftsmanship
  • From sketch to construction

a small lantern, custom-made in bronze, composed of geometric solids treated with different finishes, recalls an object of Milanese design. It is reminiscent of those lanterns found in many staircases of Italian noble palaces.

Lighting design: Cinzia Ferrara e Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio. 
Client: Fondazione Pini
Restoration Work: Laura Menegotto. 
Photo: Andrea-Rossetti. 
Bronze lantern fabrication: @bagatti_bronzisti 
Curatorship: Marco Garegnani, Silvia Bolamperti, Francesca Zaja and Eleonora Rosso

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #LightingDesign #FondazionePini #Milan #LightAndSpace #ArchitecturalLighting #lightcraftsmanship
  • A study sketch of the lantern. Drawing by Marco Miglioli

a small lantern, custom-made in bronze, composed of geometric solids treated with different finishes, recalls an object of Milanese design. It is reminiscent of those lanterns found in many staircases of Italian noble palaces.

Lighting design: Cinzia Ferrara e Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio. 
Client: Fondazione Pini
Restoration Work: Laura Menegotto. 
Photo: Andrea-Rossetti. 
Bronze lantern fabrication: @bagatti_bronzisti 
Curatorship: Marco Garegnani, Silvia Bolamperti, Francesca Zaja and Eleonora Rosso

#marcomiglioli #archilightstudio #LightingDesign #FondazionePini #Milan #LightAndSpace #ArchitecturalLighting #lightcraftsmanship