Portrait of Diana Delnegro
Diana Delnegro

Architect. Doctor of urban lighting. Designer of the city at night.

Diana Delnegro is an architect and lighting designer, founder and managing director of the studio. She holds a PhD in urban lighting from The Bartlett, University College London, was responsible for the lighting of Lisbon's monuments for over fifteen years, from Praça do Comércio to the Marquês de Pombal, and coordinated the city's first urban lighting masterplan.

She is the author of a book and academic publications on urban and heritage lighting, was a guest lecturer on the Light and Lighting master's at The Bartlett between 2010 and 2016, and chairs the CIE international technical committee TC 4-59, creating the international guide for lighting urban elements. Every project of the studio grows from that ground: rigour, evidence and scientific knowledge.

In practice since 2003 and with a studio of her own since 2016, she works from Lisbon across Portugal and abroad on heritage and historic monuments, museums and exhibitions, hotels and restaurants, public space and urban lighting masterplans, and brings to the heritage work a master's in the conservation of the built heritage from the Instituto Superior Técnico.

At a glance
Profession
Architect and architectural lighting designer
Based in
Lisbon, Portugal
Studio
Diana Delnegro Architectural Lighting, founded 2016
In practice
Since 2003
Doctorate
PhD in Urban Lighting, The Bartlett, UCL, 2016
Master's
MSc in Rehabilitation and Conservation of the Built Heritage, Instituto Superior Técnico, 2007
CIE
Chair of international technical committee TC 4-59, Guide for Lighting Urban Elements
Fields
Architectural, heritage, museum, hospitality and urban lighting; lighting masterplans
Work in
Lisbon, Porto, Tomar and Leiria, Portugal; Porto Alegre, Brazil
Honours
ADC Awards Gold · LIT Awards 2025, Honourable Mention
Book
Arquitectura em luz: a iluminação exterior do património, 2012
The studio

More than twenty years of lighting architecture, with a studio of her own since 2016.

To sculpt the perception of urbanism, spaces and objects with light, adding value to architecture and cities.

Founded by Diana Delnegro, an architect with a PhD in lighting who chairs the CIE technical committee developing the international Guide for Lighting Urban Elements, the practice combines professional experience with academic research, working with architects, cultural institutions, developers, cities and private clients across Portugal and internationally, from the urban scale and lighting masterplans to the scale of the object.

Lightware and Diana Delnegro Architectural Lighting are two brands of one practice: the same company, the same team and the same founder.

Clients

MotaEngil · Visabeira · Fibeira · Hugsan · Município do Porto · Município de Viseu · Património IP

Collaborations

Kengo Kuma & Associates