Lighting Designer

Reiko Chikada

Designer in Chief and CEO, Reiko Chikada Lighting Design Inc.

 

Reiko Chikada

Lighting Designer

Designer in Chief and CEO, Reiko Chikada Lighting Design Inc.

Ms. Reiko Chikada took her career as a lighting designer in Motoko Ishii Lighting Design Inc. She set up Reiko Chikada Lighting design Inc. in 1986 in Tokyo. She has extensive range of experience in city lighting for public facilities, hotels, museums, landscapes, hospitals, commercial buildings and residences. Many awards were granted to her lighting design achievement. She is also very proactive to the academic lectures not only in Japan, but also overseas such as India, China, Korea and Mexico to transfer the methodology and spirit of her lighting design to the world. She has a certain concept in her mind as to how the project will be fascinated by the beautiful lighting design with harmony of the change of environment and elapse of time.


 

Message

The fun of all projects is to travel the world with design drawings. The idea of lighting comes from looking at the outside with Gulliver's point of view and by feeling the space that is expanding inside from the viewpoint of a dwarf.


 

Biography

1970 Received Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts


 

Company Profile

Architectural Lighting; Akita Arts Theater Mille Has, OTEPIA (Library in Kochi), Tokyo Metropolitan Theater Renovation, Waseda University Okuma Auditorium, Kyushu National Museum, MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall and St. Luke’s International Hospital. City Lighting; National Crafts Museum, Kanazawa Port, Kanazawa Castle Park, Kanazawa Station Tsuzumimon, Kanmon Area (Mojiko Retro) Night Landscape, Kanazawa City Night Landscape, Saitama New Central Zone and Shuri-jo Castle


 

Award

IEIJ Lighting Design Award 2022 Award of Excellence ; Kanazawa Port Nighttime Landscape Projyect

Japan Society of Civil Engineers Design Award 2020 : "Landscape Lighting of Four Bridges over the Asano River”

2020 Design Achievement Award of the Illumination Engineering Institute of Japan

City. People. Light Award : 2011 third prize “Kanazawa City Lighting”

International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) Awards ;
2007 Award of Merit “Diana Garden Hiroo”,
2007 Special Citation “Tokyo Factory, Re-tem Corporation”

Illuminating Engineering Society of North Amerika (IES) Awards ;
2006 Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award of Excellence “Kyushu National Museum“
2005 Paul Waterbury Award of Excellence “The Heart Island Shinden”

G-mark Award (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) ; Gold prize “Shinonome Canal Court CODAN”


 

Committee Activity

Lifetime member of Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan (IEIJ), Member of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), Fellow Member of International Association of Lighting Designers (FIALD)
Member of Town Design Aid (TDA), Member of Japan Urban Design Institute (JUDI)
Urban Landscape Adviser : Toda City, Member of Urban Landscape Council : Kawagoe City and Tokorozawa City.


 

Public lecture

2022-10 ‘Kanazawa's Uniqueness’ Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan Hokuriku Branch Seminar
2022-10 ‘Nighttime Landscape of the Historical City of Kanazawa’ Japan-Korea Urban Design Exchange Meeting
2018-10 ‘Revived Charm of Castle and Garden’Japan, Design Forum 2018 Ishikawa
2018-10 ‘Lighting Design Taking Advantage of Regional Characteristics’ Korea,

2018-03 ‘Urban Lighting in the World’ Japan, Kanazawa 2017-11 ‘Power of Lighting Design’ Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
2016-01 ‘Kanazawa Gyokusen’inmaru Garden Lighting Design’ Japan, Lighting Japan
2015-10 ‘Digital @ Nature Feeling’ Beijing, China, Asia Lighting Design Forum 2015
2014-09 ‘City,People,Light’ India, New Delhi , Light+Design
2014-05 ‘Renovation of Architectural Lighting’  China, Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition
2014-04 ‘City,People,Light’ China, Peking University
2014-03 ‘City,People,Light’ Japan, LED Next Stage Special Symposium Keynote
2013-11 ‘Lighting design to produce character in the cities’  Korea, Sustainable H.B.I.S.
2013-06 ‘Lighting Design to connect People with Architecture’  Mexico, Mexico City, Light +People


 

Education

Part time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts (2003 - 2014),
Part time lecturer at Waseda University (1998 - 2006),
Part time lecturer at Shizuoka University of Art and Culture (2001 -2004),
Part time lecturer at Tokyo Denki University (2004 - 2006),
Part time lecturer at Hiroshima City University (2002 -2005),
DE TAO Master Professer of Lighting at De Tao Shanghai Center (2012 - )


 

Book

Supervision ; “Lighting Bible”, “Illumination dictionary”, Multiple authorship ; “Science of a Light and the Illumination”, “Introduction to Lighting Design”, “Quartet of the House”, “Incoherent Tool”


 

Prizes

2022 IEIJ Lighting Design Award 2022 Award of Excellence Kanazawa Port Nighttime Landscape Projyect
2020 Japan Society of Civil Engineers Design Award 2020 Encouragement Award Landscape Lighting of Four Bridges over the Asano River
2019 Won IEIJ / Good Lighting Design Award
Santa Shimbun kan Museum
Won IEIJ / Good Lighting Design Award
OTEPIA
Ishikawa Landscape Award
Asanogawa River Historic Bridge
2017 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Okayama Korakuen
2016 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Toin Hall
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Jyozaiji Temple
Won IEIJ / Good Lighting Design Award
Kanazawa Gyokusen’in maru Garden
2015 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Rikkyo Gakuin St. Paul's Chapel Renovation
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Lions Ichijo Residence Shonan C-X
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
The Proud Tower Shinonome Canal Court
2014 Won IES Illumination Award / Award of Merit
Shosuke no yado Takinoyu, Hotel Interior and Exterior  
2013 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Renovation  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Bungotakada City Library  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
SHARE yaraicho  
2012 Won IES Illumination Award / Award of Merit
Sky Hall Toyota Sub Arena  
Won IES Illumination Award / Award of Merit
Tohoku University Center Hall and Book Cafe  
2011 Won IES Illumination Award / Award of Merit
The Kanazawa Castle Park  
Won IES Illumination Award / Section Award
Nouvelle Akabanedai  
2010 Won IES Illumination Award / Award of Merit
Gifu Station North Plaza  
2009 Won IES Illumination Award / Award of Merit
Chinzan-so, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so  
Won IES Illumination Award / Award of Merit
Ginza Takamoto Building  
Won IES Illumination Award / Award of Merit
Kogakuin University Hachioji Campus Student Center  
Won IES Illumination Award / Award of Merit
The Cascades Jingumae  
2008 Won IEIJ Good Lighting Design Award
Waseda University, The Okuma Auditorium  
Won IEIJ Good Lighting Design Award
Sky Hall Toyota  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Sky Hall Toyota  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Toshima-ku Medical Center  
Won IIDA / Section Award
Nezu Shrine  
2007 Won IALD Lighting Design Award
Diana Garden Hiroo  
Won IEIJ Good Lighting Design Award
Diana Garden Hiroo  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Diana Garden Hiroo  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
COCONE Kamifukuoka  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Retem Corporation Tokyo Factory  
Won IALD Lighting Design Award
Retem Corporation Tokyo Factory  
2006 Won AACA Yoshinobu Ashihara prize
Retem Corporation Tokyo Factory  
Won Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award for Interior Design / Award of Excellence
Kyushu National Museum  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Shinonome Canal Court CODAN  
Won IIDA / Section Award
Saitama Prefectural Martial Arts Center
 
Won IIDA / Section Award
Ajinomoto Group Takanawa Training Center  
Won IIDA / Section Award
Toyota-shi Station East Square, West Square, Toyota Ohashi Bridge and Toyota Stadium  
Won IEIJ Good Lighting Design Award
Kyushu National Museum  
Won IEIJ Good Lighting Design Award
Honda Wako Building  
Won Good Design Award / Good Design Architecture
Proud City Oizumi-Gakuen  
Won CS Design Award Grand-Prix
Hiroo Complex  
2005 Won IIDA / Paul Waterbury Award of Excellence
The Heart Island, Shinden Ichibangai  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Oi Keibajo  
Won IIDA / Section Award
Academy Common, Meiji University Surugadai Campus  
Won Good Design Award / Good Design Architecture
Shinonome Canal Court CODAN  
2004 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Izumi City Plaza  
Won Osaka Urban Design Awards
Izumi City Plaza  
Won IEIJ Quality Lighting Design Award
Izumi City Plaza  
Won IEIJ Good Lighting Design Award
Muza Kawasaki  
Won IEIJ Good Lighting Design Award
Shinonome Canal Court CODAN  
Won Good Design Award / Good Design Architecture
Kichijoji Sunroad Shopping Mall Arcade  
2001 Won IDA Award for quality outdoor lighting
Clean-Topia Marugame  
22th Good Architect in Tohoku
Asahimachi Eco-museum Core Center  
2000 Won the 12th Japan Housing Industry Development Association Award Grand Prix
Heart Hills 21 Asaka no Mori  
Won IEIJ Quality Lighting Design Award
Mutsu Municipal Library  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Toyota Ohashi Bridge  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Ibaraki Prefectural Office  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Ibaraki Prefectural Development Corporation Building  
1999 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Shuri-jo Park  
Won IIDA / Section Award
Yoyogi no Mori Park Mansion  
Won IIDA / Section Award
Seiyu no Ie  
Won IIDA / Section Award
Yano-minami Elementary School  
Won IIDA / Section Award
Hotel Meridian Grand Pacific  
1998 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Headquarters of the Public Health Department of Yamaguchi Prefecture  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Kumagaya Funeral Pavilion  
1997 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama  
1996 Won IEIJ Good Lighting Design Award for Architecture
JR Chiba Station Square, East Gate  
Won Yokohama Urban Design Award
Sotsu Yokohama Headquarters  
Won the Most Outstanding Display Design of the Year
Mikimoto Christmas Illumination  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Sotsu Yokohama Headquarters  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Hokkaido Hotel  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Act City Hamamatsu Zone A  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Mikimoto Christmas Illumination  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Tokachi Ohashi Bridge  
1995 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
WISH: Energy Efficient Housing  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Housing Connected to the Community  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Hisago Tokyo Headquarters  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
STEP: 85th Anniversary Memorial Hall of Chuo Institute of Technology  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Yokohama Portside  
1994 Won Ministry of International Trade & Industrial Good Design Award / Good Design Architecture
Floating Sukiya: Kobe Konishi Headquarters and Circulation Depot  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Prismatic Cube  
1993 Won Japan Display Design Association Award
Mikimoto Christmas Illumination  
1992 Won IIDA / Award of Merit

Meguro Gajoen  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit

Eau de Ciel: Daikin Tateshina Mountain Resort  
1991 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Itako Water Gate  
Won IIDA / Award of Merit
Hotel Seashore  
1990 Won IIDA / Award of Merit
A Prefabricated House for Senior Citizens