
Jen Park
Principal and co-founder of ParkFowler Plus, Chicago-based architect specializing in composition and patterns in contemporary design
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Jun 2, 2026
Episode 35: Zero Out of a Hundred: Jen Park on Why Lighting Never Gets Credit
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Jen ParkGUEST
The way that we start to talk about it with students, I would say, is like, starts with daylighting, right? With, with, you know, things at the, just like the environmental conditions.

Jen ParkGUEST
I would say [laughs] actually it's probably hard to even get them to think that much, right? In oftentimes, right? You are always thinking about, like, how you position your architecture, your building, your massing with solar orientation.

Jen ParkGUEST
And how do you just capture that? How are-- do you understand what the just environment and working with that which is-Consistent, right? And you can, you can digest that, you can get that, and you can then understand where do I put apertures or where do I want shade, and things like that.

Jen ParkGUEST
I wanna say we start there with students, and if they can grasp that, and if we can get into the interior environments, then...
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