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| Trent Van Blaricom, AIA is a Principal of APV Architectural Lighting Design in Washington DC. Trent, as business partner founded the Atelier and provides the architectural management and leadership for the firm. Trent is a licensed architect and holds a masters degree in business management. Trent has managed and produced projects of various uses and sizes ranging from the 90,000 s.f. of museum galleries, shops and lobbies for the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland to the 1,000,000 s.f. of office, hotels, and shops for the Greensplot Development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Trent provides expertise of over twenty years in design, management and production and has earned many honors as principal of APV including a number of International Lighting Design Awards. His projects have also been published in Lighting and Design Application magazine, Dimension Lighting magazine, and have been reviewed by the Washington Post. In 2007, Trent was guest speaker at Architecture Exchange East Conference in Richmond, Virginia. |
Farah Pourbabai Barnes is a Principal of APV Architectural Lighting Design in Washington DC. Farah was originally educated as an architect and practiced architecture, as well as museum exhibition design. Her passion for light in architecture and works of art led her to establish APV as a full service international architectural lighting design company in 1990. She is an accomplished professional designer who is sympathetic to the unique problems and requirements of each project. She has received a number of International Design Awards for her projects, as well as the Presidential Design Award, for her earlier work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Her projects have also been published in Lighting and Design Application magazine, Dimension Lighting magazine, and have been reviewed by the Washington Post. As a board member of the Museum and Art Gallery Lighting Committee of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, she was co-writer to a technical memorandum in 2005 on policy and guidelines for documenting works of art in museums and historic places. She is active professional board member at European Lighting Designers’ Association (Professional Lighting Design). She provides educational seminars on lighting. Her strong interest in cultural heritage and Islamic architecture has also led her to undertake assignments in the broader cultural heritage field. In 2007, she was guest speaker at Architecture Exchange East Conference in Richmond Virginia, (Managing transition between natural and artificial lighting) and in Euroluce International in Milan (Can the museum survive without light?). She was a guest speaker at symposiums on the role of museums in cultural heritage in December 1998 and August 2004 in Tehran.Ms. Pourbabai Barnes holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from Virginia Tech, as well as an MBA from George Washington University. |