Cristina is an Italian architect and lighting designer, based in Rotterdam.
She is educated through various universities in Europe and Asia. Amongst other the Master Course in Architectural Lighting Design at KTH. One important experience that led her into the lighting world was being shown the importance of lights and shadows, at the Kengo Kuma Laboratory, in Tokyo.
Most of her professional experience is connected to Beersnielsen Lichtontwerpers in the Netherlands, a creative, flexible and independent lighting design firm, where she currently works for. With a team of six designers, varying in background and nationality, they base their design strategy on “having enough light, at the right time, in the right place, for a dedicated purpose”.
As a young professional, joining an established firm, she has had the chance to work on very diverse projects both in scale and scope. She has a soft spot for museum lighting.
“Despite our considerable age (and height) difference, I have recognized since the very beginning the joy and excitement that working hands-on and helping others, ignite into both of us, alike. When Sjoerd participated as workshop head in 2006, he was in the first years of his career. Now, almost twenty years (and some hundreds of projects) later, I find it particularly poetic that he could go back to Alingsås with another motivated woman, who is exploring her role in the professional field of lighting design. I like this idea of recurrence, and love thinking that, in two more decades, I could return, what I have been receiving, to a new generation of lighting aficionados”, Cristina says.
