Bill Lam
BioBill Lam (1924-2012) was born in Honolulu Hawaii and went to school at Punahou Academy. He moved to Cambridge, MA in 1941 to attend MIT. After serving in the Army Air Corps as a B-25 co-pilot for three years, he returned to MIT and completed a degree in architecture in 1949.
Bill was influenced by the work of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto—who had designed MIT’s Baker House in 1946 and taught at MIT while he was a student.
He established Lam Workshop in the late 1940s in Massachusetts. His lamps were selected for Case Study Houses and advertisements for the company are seen in Arts & Architecture magazine.
Considered a Pioneer in architectural lighting, Bill wrote two influential books– Perception and Lighting as Formgivers for Architecture (1977) and Sunlighting as Formgiver for Architecture (1986). They have become legendary reference books in the architectural and lighting design professions.
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