AUERBACH GLASOW FRENCH


		LARRY FRENCH, MIES, LC, FIALD Principal Larry French has extensive experience in the design and management of architectural lighting projects. His work includes many large public space interiors, commercial offices, exhibit and retail spaces, residences and restaurants. Prior to joining Auerbach Glasow French in 1988, Mr. French had gathered comprehensive experience as a theatrical lighting designer. Accumulated over a 15 year period, his design work included affiliations with the San Francisco Opera Company, Seattle Opera Company, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Washington Opera Company, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, to name a few. He has also toured in Europe for the Netherlands Opera and in China for the Washington Ballet. Mr. French has received numerous lighting design awards, including top honors from the IESNA International Illumination Design Awards and International Association of Lighting Designers awards program. He is among the first individuals to have been awarded the National Opera Institute's Grant for Design. SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California Autodesk Design Center, San Francisco, California Brigham Young University, BYU-Idaho Center Auditorium, Rexburg, Idaho Carnegie Hall - Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall, New York, New York Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, California Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Gates Planetarium, Denver. Colorado Epic Systems Corporation Conference Center, Verona, Wisconsin Fisherman’s Wharf in Exterior Renovation, San Francisco, California Griffith Observatory, Samuel Oschin Planetarium, Los Angeles, California Johnson County Community College, Cultural Education Facility, Overland Park, Kansas MGM Grand, KÀ™ for Cirque du Soleil, Las Vegas, Nevada New York New York, Zumanity, Another Side of Cirque du Soleil, Las Vegas, Nevada Occidental College, Belle Thorne Hall Renovation, Los Angeles, California Philadelphia Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rice University, Shepherd School of Music, Houston, Texas Robson Square Ice Rink Expansion, Vancouver, British Columbia San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, California Space Center Houston NASA Visitor's Center, Houston, Texas Stanford University, Wallenberg Global Learning Center, Stanford, California Sun Valley Music Pavilion, Sun Valley, Idaho The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Wrightsman Galleries, New York, New York The Walt Disney Family Museum and Library, San Francisco, California Transbay Transit Center, San Francisco, California Vancouver International Airport, International Wing, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Vancouver International Airport, West Chevron Expansion, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Watts Learning Center, Watts, California Williams-Sonoma Post Street, San Francisco, California Winnipeg International Airport, Manitoba, Canada EDUCATION University of California, Davis Southern Methodist University Banff School of Fine Arts Master's seminars with noted Czech scenographer Josef Svoboda CERTIFICATION Lighting Certification (LC), National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Association of Museums Fellow of the International Association of Lighting Designers, Former Director of Membership – Board of Directors Illuminating Engineering Society United States Institute for Theatre Technology PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Frequent guest speaker at industry conferences and seminars