The Nature of Light: A Daylight Talk by Sinus Lynge
Sinus Lynge, Creative Director at EFFEKT Architects (DK) will present Daylight Talk #25 titled ‘The nature of light – designing with daylight to reconnect with nature’ in collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy.
Live event: 23 October 2025 at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen
Watch online: 26 November 2025
Daylight Talks are organised by the VELUX Group in collaboration with individual schools of architecture and they are endorsed by the International Union of Architects (UIA) and the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE).
Daylight Talk #25: The nature of light – designing with daylight to reconnect with nature
In this lecture, Sinus Lynge, Co-founder and Creative Director of EFFEKT, explores how architecture can frame and enhance our experience of light as it shifts throughout the day and across the seasons. Drawing on EFFEKT’s mission to reconnect people with nature through design at every scale, Sinus shares the studio’s daylight strategies as seen in a series of educational and residential projects in Denmark. Through thoughtful design, daylight becomes more than illumination—it becomes a reminder of our deep connection to nature’s rhythms.
About Sinus Lynge
Sinus Lynge is the Co-founder and Creative Director of EFFEKT, where he has successfully bridged research and design across a range of award-winning projects. His holistic and collaborative approach to architecture, urbanism, landscape and research leads to innovative, impactful design solutions that address today’s major social and environmental challenges.
His work is centered on reconnecting people with nature through design at every scale. This life-centric approach focuses on resource-efficient ways of living, building, reusing, producing, and consuming—seeking solutions that go beyond minimizing harm to actively regenerating ecosystems. His designs foster lively, inclusive, and resilient neighbourhoods, carefully integrating nature while responding to diverse needs and lifestyles.
Sinus represents an empathetic and responsive approach to architecture, combining analytical precision with artistic vision. Dedicated to continuous innovation, he strives to position the building industry as a catalyst for lasting, positive change.
About The Royal Danish Academy
The Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation orients itself towards the outside world and aims to take great social responsibility. We strive to be an active, creative and leading player in relation to the major national and global agendas that is shaping our time.
The Academy is a research and educational institution that is and always has been in continuous transformation. But one thing is certain: We draw on a historical foundation of practice, art and science. And we believe that this is exactly what qualifies us to take the lead in innovative creativity, technological solutions, ground-breaking research and noticeable social impact.
The Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation unites three fields of knowledge: academic research, artistic research and professional practice as three different ways to discover, invent and create.
These three fields are closely interlinked in the education, enabling us to develop graduates and knowledge, which match the needs of the profession, while contributing world-class research, ground-breaking artistic design and new experimental understanding. Our knowledge base gives the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation a unique position among educational and research institutions both in Denmark and abroad.
