Return to Staff Page

Thomas Goetz, LC
Lighting Designer
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, FH Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Lighting Certified
  • Illuminating Engineering Society

Thomas Goetz is Lighting Certified by the National Council on Qualifications of the Lighting Profession (NCQLP). Having been trained in Germany, he has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is also a Sculptor and an Artist with several exhibitions of his work were shown in Germany.

His solutions in Lighting Design are creative, unique and engineered for a long life.

Many of his designs have won regional and national awards, including National Recognition for Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design from IES, IES Award of Merit, along with being featured numerous times in such publications as Sunset Magazine, Phoenix Home & Garden and The Arizona Republic.

Some of Thomas’s notable projects and vast experience include Maravilla, an upscale senior living center in Scottsdale, which is 800,000 square feet of various types of residences along with a theater, playhouse, numerous restaurants and bars, spa and health facilities, salons, meeting rooms and libraries, offices and outdoor environments; the Halle Heart Children’s Museum in Tempe, an interactive exploratory children’s museum; several high end restaurants; and the PGA West Tournament Clubhouse in Palm Springs are just a few of his commercial lighting design projects.

Residental design projects range from small remodels to 40,000 square foot high end homes.