In Person

  • Miho Schoettker, IALD, MIES
  • In 1996, Miho Schoettker, IALD, MIES launched the privately-held SBE-certified Akali Lighting Design corroborating with a team of architects, engineers, interior designers, contractors, scientists, and educators. The firm specializes in ecologically responsible, architecturally sustainable, and healthy environmental lighting design for commercial, institutional, and residential projects. The firm provides lighting forensic investigations and expert testimonies.

    Miho is a professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers, IALD. The IALD is a group of the world's most prestigious and well-recognized lighting designers.​ The professional members must subscribe to the highest educational and ethical standards, in addition to meeting rigorous qualifications for membership.​The professional members render lighting design services in exchange for compensation. ​​The IALD recognizes ​procurement​ service as a conflicting interest and ​they prohibit it.​

    Miho is an adjunct professor who develops and teaches university-level architectural lighting classes emphasizing daylighting, artificial lighting, daylighting/artificial lighting integration, WELL-compliment design, and LEED-compliant design.

  • Professional Experiences:
  • Founder and Principal - Akali Lighting Design (1996-Present)
  • Lighting Designer - TL Yamagiwa Laboratory at Yamagiwa Corporation (1986-1992)
    • Other Experiences:
    • Advisory Board - Scottsdale Public Art (2019 - Present)
    • Adjunct Professor - Arizona State University (2017-Present)
    • Graduate Thesis Advisor - Arizona State University (2017 - Present)
    • Adjunct Professor - The Art Institute of Phoenix (2010-2013)
    • Adjunct Professor - The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (2010)
    • Education:
    • Master of Science in Lighting - Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • Bachelor of Architecture - Nihon University
    • Bachelor of Education in Arts - Nihon University
    • Research:
    • Paint Inspection Lighting - Identification of Inspection Relevant Variables. Lloyd C. J., Boyce P. R., Mizukami M., and Strobel B. - Technical Paper of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
    • A Preliminary Model of Lighting - Display Interaction” Lloyd C. J., Mizukami M., and Boyce P. R. - Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
      • Awards:
      • Edwin F. Guth Memorial Awards of Excellent for Research - International Illumination Design Award by Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IIDA by IESNA)
      • Edwin F. Guth Memorial Awards of Excellent for Interior Lighting Design - IIDA by IESNA
      • Paul Waterbury Awards of Excellent for Outdoor Lighting Design - IIDA by IESNA
      • Paul Waterbury Awards of Special Citation for Outdoor Lighting Design - IIDA by IESNA
      • Professional Memberships:
      • Professional Member of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD)
      • Member of the Illuminating Engineering Society (MIES)