Golnaz Abadian is an architectural lighting designer whose work focuses on how light shapes architecture, landscape, and human experience. She specializes in designing lighting for interiors, exteriors, and outdoor environments across residential, retail, and hospitality projects.

Her design approach treats light as a fundamental material—equal to form, surface, and structure. She prioritizes visual comfort, warmth, and clarity, creating lighting environments that enhance wayfinding, amplify architectural intent, and shape the emotional quality of space. Through each project, Golnaz seeks to balance technical precision with human-centered design, asking not only how spaces look under light, but how they feel, how they are used, and how they support the people within them.

Golnaz collaborates closely with architects, interior designers, and project teams to ensure lighting is coordinated seamlessly within the built environment. She provides fully integrated lighting services throughout all phases of design and construction. Her work includes developing:

1. Thoughtful lighting layouts
2. Specifying architectural and decorative fixtures
3. Performing lighting calculations
4. Refining technical and construction details
5. Designing control strategies that support both function and atmosphere

Whether you’re planning a project, or want to see if your project is the right fit, feel free to get in touch.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

2023–Present

2023–Present

Tara Lighting Group

Founder and Director
Architectural lighting designer

2023–Present

2023–Present

Primary Arc

Architectural lighting designer

May 2018–Feb 2024

May 2018–Feb 2024

Wald Studio

Architectural lighting designer

May–June 2017

May–June 2017

BPI—Brandston Partnership Inc.

Part-time lighting designer

Dec 2015–Feb 2016

Dec 2015–Feb 2016

OVI— Office for Visual Interaction

Junior Lighting Designer

EDUCATION

2016–2018

2016–2018

Business Management and Adminestration

Columbia Business School, NYC

2015–2016

2015–2016

Lighting Design | MFA

New York School of Interior Design, NYC

2009–2013

2009–2013

Interior Design | BFA

Ajman University, Ajman, UAE

PAST CLIENTS

2023–Present

2023–Present

2023–Present

A16Z—The Andressen Horowitz

2023–Present

Dec 2015–Feb 2016

For Collaboration and Inquiries

For Collaboration and Inquiries

For Collaboration and Inquiries