#Interview #Podcast w/ Cecilia Ramos, AIA of LUTRON KETRA

November 07, 2024

#Interview #Podcast w/ Cecilia Ramos, AIA of LUTRON KETRA

Cecilia Ramos, AIA of Lutron

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I met Cecilia Ramos in real life when I was invited to the Lutron Ketra Experience in Scottsdale, Arizona. I got licensed in Arizona a couple o years go and David Weinstein, who s the VP of Residential Sales for Lutron Ketra, whom I met about 5 years ago now, thought that it would be a great opportunity for me to know the Lutron Ketra team in Scottsdale so that I could take clients to experience the Ketra Lighting Lab at the showroom. I have to say that it is awesome, and it is also used at Taliesin West presently.

The quality of the light is amazing as one can set it to mimic the light outside no matter where you are, so if it is afternoon and you want the light inside of your home to be like it is outside, you can do that. And in fact, and Lutron Ketra and can correct me if I am wrong... but if it's a cloudy day in sunny southern California, you can adjust the lighting in your house to be the same as it would be if it was a bright sunny day! Isn't that amazing? And the quality of the light, whether it be of a blue or a yellow light, cool or warm, high Kelvin or low Kelvin temperature (it can be a different feel or comfort level for everyone!) The quality of the lighting experience can be changed to reflect that as what is in the video above.

The amazing thing with light is that the quality of light can change from region to region, and age to age. I have been in a dining room with younger clients who seem to think that the light over their dining table was sufficient for them and their kids, where I could barely read the drawings because I perceived the room as being very dark. And also what is interesting is that we can do a project for someone and they have showed inspo images to us and we try and recreate that and they will try and go back to the way things were originally, they want to stay in their comfort zone, even if their comfort zone really isn't what they wanted! So, if you want a room that is brighter, don't choose the same dark paint and tile that you had in the previous space because it will not look much different, it will just be bigger.

STEP OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE!!!!!!! for everything!!!

Cecilia Ramos, AIA

Cecilia’s expertise is in lighting, interiors, and architectural design and at Lutron, Cecilia is responsible for leading the company’s work in A&D. She holds degrees from MIT (B.SAD) and Princeton University (M.Arch), and has traveled the world as a lighting designer for luxury brands including Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior. She lives in New York City (when not on planes!).

Before joining Lutron, she specialized in the lighting of luxury retail stores for LVMH brands (LV, Dior, Hublot, Fendi) with award winning lighting design firm L’Osservatore International. And prior, as principal of her own design consulting practice, she worked in exhibition and installation design for renown clients such as Guggenheim Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, and MacroSea .In her current role, Cecilia is responsible for leading Lutron’s Architecture and Design strategy. Her work encompasses business development, creative direction, marketing, experiential design, and strategy. She also led the interior and lighting design of the award-winning Ketra Headquarters in Austin, TX., Los Angeles Design Studio, and 2022 PRISMATIC events throughout Europe.

She is an accomplished and sought after speaker and has presented at conferences worldwide including's Barcelona (2024), ISE Mexico (2023), ASID National Conference (2023), CEDIA, Denver (2023), Design, Leadership Network Business Forum (2023), Design Management Institute, Madrid (2023), Dubai Design Week (2022), LED Forum Brazil (2022), and Energy, Puerto Rico (2021).She is co-author of the book “Architectural Lighting, Designing with Light and Space” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011)

Cecilia E. Ramos