Miyoung Song

Architectural lighting designer and artist, founder and design principal of Atelier B International.

Miyoung Song brings more than thirty years of experience combining architectural lighting design, custom decorative luminaire design, and light art installation, exploring the relationship between light, architecture, landscape, and human experience.

Her path into lighting began with the interplay of light and shadow in film projection and the interactive potential of light in public space. Drawing on a background in sculpture, spatial art, film, conservation, and historic preservation, she approaches light as an architectural material: one that reveals space, enhances materiality, shapes atmosphere, and builds meaningful connections between people and place. This extends lighting beyond illumination toward context, material, history, and human interaction, with sustainability and human well-being central to her process.

Her work spans civic, corporate, cultural, education, healthcare, infrastructure, hospitality, retail, master plan, public realm, residential, mixed use, tower and facade, and preservation and renovation projects in the United States and internationally. Her light art has been exhibited in New York City galleries and public parks, and she designs custom luminaires.

Miyoung previously practiced at Fisher Marantz Stone and HLB Lighting Design. She teaches lighting at the New York School of Interior Design and Parsons School of Design.

• CredentialsProfessional IALD, MIES, CLD, LC, LEED AP BD+C, NOMA
• EducationMFA, Sculpture, and MS, History of Art, Film Criticism and Conservation/Preservation, Pratt Institute
  BFA, Sculpture, Hongik University
• TeachingNew York School of Interior Design
  Parsons School of Design
• Honors & AwardsIES Illumination Award of Merit, WilmerHale, 2025
  AIA New Jersey Chapter Honor Award, Portsmouth Abbey School, 2024
  IES Illumination Award of Merit, Travis County Civil and Family Courts, 2024
  LIT Design Awards, Little Island, NYC, 2023
  IESNY Lumen Award of Excellence, Little Island, NYC, 2022
  NLB Tesla Award, Little Island, NYC, 2022
  Architectural Magazine Honor Award, Exterior Lighting, Little Island, NYC, 2022
  Engineering News-Record New York Award of Merit, Small Project, New York Presbyterian 68th Street Entrance Renovation, 2012
  IES Illumination Award of Merit, Berwind Corporate Headquarters, 2011
  IES Special Citation for Understated and Effective Illumination of the World’s Tallest Building, Burj Khalifa, 2011
  IESNY Lumen Certification for Exterior Lighting, Burj Khalifa, 2011
  IES Illumination Award of Merit, Marriott’s Crystal Shores on Marco Island, Florida, 2010
• LanguagesEnglish, Korean