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The Professional Lighting Designers' Association (PLDA), was an international association of architectural lighting designers headquartered in Gütersloh, Germany.[1][2]

Professional Lighting Designers' Association
AbbreviationPLDA
FormationOctober 1994; 31 years ago (1994-10)
Founded atFrankfurt, Germany
HeadquartersGütersloh, Germany
Formerly called
European Lighting Designers' Association

The PLDA was previously known as the European Lighting Designers' Association (ELDA), which was founded in 1993 or 1994 in Frankfurt, Germany.[3][4] Starting sometime in 2001 or 2002, the abbreviation ELDA+ was used to indicate the organisation was "moving forward, progressing, expanding, improving and generally going beyond what the association has been until now."[5][6][7]

The ELDA+ changed its name to the Professional Lighting Designers' Association (PLDA) in early 2007.[8] It also transitioned from the ELDAplus.org[9] web domain name to PLD-A.org[10] accordingly that year.

The PLDA participated in an international credentialing task force assembled by the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) in 2010 to determine the feasibility of a global certification, ultimately leading to the creation of the Certified Lighting Designer (CLD) credential.[11][12][13]

The PLDA disbanded in 2014.[13][14] Longtime collaborator VIA-Verlag launched the similarly named PLD Alliance in 2016.[15][16]

Membership

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There were three types of voting member (Fellow, Professional, or Associate) and three kinds of non-voting member (Design, Student, or Affiliate).[17] These classifications were defined in the membership application form.[18]

Publications

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The official magazine of the PLDA was Professional Lighting Design (PLD), published by VIA-Verlag since 1998.[7] PLD was shared by the PLDA and IALD from 2003[19] or 2004[20] into 2006.[21][22]

The magazine's domain name was PLDplus.com from 2002 to 2005.[9][23][24] It transitioned to PLD-M.com in 2011.[25] PLD was also available at VIA-Internet.com in 2002,[26] as well as at VIA-Verlag.com from 2003 or earlier into 2013.[27]

Events

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The PLDA held workshops nearly every year from 1999 through 2011.[28] Separately, PLDA offered two conferences—Light Focus and Vox Juventa—nearly every year from 2005 through 2010.[29]

Organised by the PLD magazine in collaboration with the PLDA, the first Professional Lighting Design Convention (PLDC) was held in London from 24 to 27 October 2007.[30][31] The plenary session at the end of the convention released a Declaration of the Official Establishment of the Architectural Lighting Design Profession.[32] Subsequent PLDCs were organised by VIA-Verlag (in collaboration with PLDA in the early years) in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019.[33][34]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ What We Do at the Wayback Machine (archived 17 January 2014)
  2. ↑ Contact at the Wayback Machine (archived 17 January 2014)
  3. ↑ "Lighting Timeline". ArchitectMagazine.com. Zonda Media. 30 November 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  4. ↑ "Professional Lighting Designers' Association (PLDA)". UIA.org. Union of International Associations. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  5. ↑ ELDAplus.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 23 February 2002)
  6. ↑ ELDAplus.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 15 August 2006)
  7. 1 2 Laganier, Vincent (1 April 2016). "'Exterior Lighting, France Is a World Leader' - Joachim Ritter". LightZoomLumiere.fr. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  8. ↑ Latest News at the Wayback Machine (archived 1 May 2007)
  9. 1 2 ELDAplus.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 9 April 2007)
  10. ↑ PLD-A.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 31 May 2007)
  11. ↑ "About the Certified Lighting Designer Program". iald.org. International Association of Lighting Designers. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  12. ↑ Reid, Randy (7 March 2012). "IALD Investigates Global Credentialing". EdisonReport.com. EdisonReport Media Network. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  13. 1 2 Donoff, Elizabeth (March 2015). "Credentialing Update" (PDF). Architectural Lighting. 29 (2): 18. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  14. ↑ Klaasen, Martin (13 March 2014). "The Demise of the PLDA". kldesign.co. Klaasen Lighting Design. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  15. ↑ PLD-Alliance.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 December 2016)
  16. ↑ Ritter, Joachim (2017). "'Shift Happens' - The Birth of a new Profession" (PDF). Lumen Insights (2). UL: 4. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  17. ↑ Become a Member at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 October 2013)
  18. ↑ Application form for membership in the Professional Lighting Designers' Association at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 November 2013)
  19. ↑ PLDplus.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 July 2003)
  20. ↑ IALD.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 March 2004)
  21. ↑ VIA-Verlag.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 October 2006)
  22. ↑ IALD.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 December 2006)
  23. ↑ PLDplus.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 October 2002)
  24. ↑ PLDplus.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 February 2005)
  25. ↑ PLD-M.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 February 2011)
  26. ↑ VIA-Internet.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 15 August 2002)
  27. ↑ VIA-Verlag.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 July 2013)
  28. ↑ Workshops at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 January 2013)
  29. ↑ Conferences at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 January 2013)
  30. ↑ "First Global Lighting Design Convention Makes Its Mark". ArchitectMagazine.com. Zonda Media. 10 December 2007. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  31. ↑ PLD-C.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 September 2008)
  32. ↑ PLD-A.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 15 November 2007)
  33. ↑ PLD-C.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 9 June 2024)
  34. ↑ "PLDC 2018 Comes to a Close". Arc-Magazine.com. 9 November 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
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