Nicholas Conrique

Edison Price’s booth at LightFair 2023, about 3,000 square feet at the Javits Center. I designed the structure and the lighting, drew the set, and ran the project through install.

Javits is a union floor, so the drawings and construction administration had to be tight enough for the crew to build from without me filling in gaps.

The structure stays simple and neutral so the products are what you notice. It opened on time, and the Infinity installation at the center won a 2023 LIT Lighting Design Award.

RoleProject manager, design-build. Space design and drafting, lighting design, construction administration and logistics.

Edison Price’s booth at LightFair 2025 in Las Vegas. I laid it out like a small building. You enter at reception, go through a foyer, and then a series of rooms: a downlight gallery, the Cage, a track showcase and a workshop on the north side with a Freepoint demo.

Each room shows the products the way they’d actually be used, and arches mark the transitions, so people move through it in order.

Freepoint Monopoint, a system I product-managed, received an Honorable Mention at the 2025 LIT Lighting Design Awards and was included in the 2025 IES Progress Report.

Edison Price’s booth at LightX 2026, a private show hosted by Bell & McCoy and FRM at the Gaylord Texan. About a thousand architects, engineers and designers attend, and we had 10 by 10 feet.

The brief was a brand and customer experience that got people involved with the product lines. I designed a set of open frames under a plywood ceiling. Track and downlights sit in the coffers, and one continuous line of light runs down through the frames, steps between bays and loops at the floor.

I detailed the lighting plan, the structure and the build. The frames were prefabbed in panels, so it went up in less than half the time of our other booths and shipped in a single 12-foot crate.

Architects draw curves, but most linear lighting only comes in straight runs, so on a lot of projects the curve gets redrawn to fit the catalog.

Infinity is built around curved modules. Straight and curved sections connect in any combination, flat or in three dimensions, and the same system mounts suspended, recessed, on the surface or on the wall.

I’ve been the product manager since the 2021 launch, which covers the launch campaign, expanding the line and getting it installed on real projects. It won Design Excellence at LightFair 2021.

Edison Price is known for recessed and track. Easy-Link was part of its move into suspended linear, where corners, tees and crosses usually mean custom parts or fixes in the field.

Every module uses the same five-conductor connector, and the socket turns 360°, so each module can rotate and aim where it’s needed. Straight runs, crosses and closed rectangles all come from the same small set of parts, and it installs quickly.

Curved modular runs are easy to draw and hard to order. The parts list depends on the exact shape, and the shape changes with every revision.

Draft Logic is a layout tool where the drawing generates the order. You draw on a true-scale canvas, connector to connector, and it won’t let you draw something that can’t be built.

Each layout outputs a bill of materials, photometrics, load calculations and a dimensioned PDF submittal set. It’s free to use at app.conrique.co.

A waterfront museum and a tidal power plant sharing 30 acres on the East River, covered by one artificial landscape.

Cities usually hide their infrastructure and keep nature in parks. We put both on display, and the machine rooms became exhibits you can see into from the park.

The roof is a field of fallen leaves covered in parametric barnacles, modeled in CATIA. Each barnacle is a scaffold for algae.

The idea was manufactured nature: machine-made, parametric parts used to build something organic. It’s the same thing I work on now with modular lighting, at a smaller scale.

Borrowed investigates precedent as a material system rather than a visual reference. Using Le Corbusier’s La Tourette Monastery as a source text, the project extracts architectural fragments from the original building and reassigns them to a new domestic context. The monastery’s cellular rooms, circulation bars, roof figures, screens, and courtyard logic are transformed into a kit of parts for a single-family residence in Los Angeles.

The project resists a clean translation from monastery to house. Instead, it operates through displacement. Elements designed for collective religious life are scaled and reorganized around domestic occupation. The sacred becomes residential, the institutional becomes intimate, and the heavy monastic object is loosened into a colorful aggregation of parts.

Overgrown is a four-unit housing project in Los Angeles, designed from a study of Le Corbusier’s La Tourette. The study broke the monastery into a kit of parts: cells, circulation bars, courtyard voids, concrete walls, roof forms, screens and a few sculptural volumes.

La Tourette arranges private cells around shared space. Overgrown uses the same idea for four homes, arranged around courtyards, gardens, stairs and open-air circulation.

A new main building for Ghetto Film School, with classrooms, two auditoriums and a cafe. The building is a box that unfolds over an untouched base, and the interior is organized like a film set, around framing, projection and sequence.

A public library on a dense block, so most of the design happens in section. Each floor meets a central atrium differently, and rust-colored volumes sit on a lighter base to break up the mass.