The Lighting Practice (TLP) is thrilled to announce the promotion of Joe Zhao to Senior Lighting Designer and Rachel Lee to Lighting Designer II!
Joe joined The Lighting Practice’s Philadelphia office in 2023 as a Lighting Designer II. Prior to TLP, he worked at another Philadelphia-based lighting design firm as a lead designer on a variety of projects including commercial offices, hospitality, education, and exterior façade projects. Joe is NCQLP Lighting Certified and believes that light is not only an essential element for visual perception and functionality in architecture, but also a transformative force that breathes life into a space, evokes emotion, and showcases the spirit of architecture.
Rachel joined TLP in 2023 as a Lighting Designer I after working as an intern in the summer of 2022. She received her Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree from The Pennsylvania State University in 2023 and was the vice president of Penn State’s IES chapter in 2020. Rachel’s interest in lighting design was first sparked by the psychological effect that lighting can have on people in any given space. She has mainly worked on conceptual packages and design documentation for various project types, but most commonly corporate, academic, and exterior façade and site.
Joe and Rachel will uphold The Lighting Practice’s design and customer service standards while furthering our mission to take ordinary spaces and make them extraordinary. We are proud of our team; their talents have enhanced The Lighting Practice and the lighting design community at large.
