Rogier van der Heide is an architectural lighting designer and Director with Arup. Rogier is the Global Leader of Arup Lighting. Rogier has been responsible for innovative, creative and well-executed projects all over the world.

Being a recipient of the prestigious IALD Radiance Award, the Lighting Designer of the Year Award, an Edison Award of Excellence, two Edison Awards of Merit, three International Illumination Design Awards, a Royal Institute of British Architecture Award (together with Zaha Hadid) as well as a British Lighting Design Award, Rogier’s work is widely recognised as leading in the field of creative and independent lighting design.

Many architects work together with Rogier, who has worked in collaboration with Renzo Piano, Ben van Berkel, Zaha Hadid, Michael Graves, Cesar Pelli, Rob Krier and many others.

Besides his work for Arup, Rogier has delivered many lectures, presentations and seminars about architectural lighting, including museum lighting design at several international conferences. Rogier also is Professor at the Technical University of Graz, Austria.