nathalie rozot, planning and design
nathalie rozot is an award-winnning multidisciplinary planning and design consultant based in New York. Her design leadership comprises extensive projects that reflect her focus on public space and her versatile practice in disciplines encompassing architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, exhibit design, and, since 2000, lighting design.
A former Director for l’Observatoire International Inc., Nathalie started her own lighting design and research practice in 2006. She launched the company photic in 2008, and the not-for-profit PhoScope in 2011.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions in Paris, Rome, Florence, Osaka and New York. Awards include two Lumen Awards, grants from the City of Paris and the New York State Council for the Arts, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. Her designs were finalists on several prestigious international competitions, such as the Buckminster Fuller Challenge in 2009.
Nathalie Rozot teaches lighting in several master's programs-- she is a thesis advisor at Parsons' School of Constructed Environments, and a guest lecturer in the Ecoles Nationales Supérieures de Paysage landscape architecture schools in Versailles and Lille. She regularly contributes as a guest lecturer and critic in schools of architecture at CUNY, Pratt and Columbia University. She publishes and lectures internationally on critical and social studies of lighting and global nightscapes.