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Please join us in welcoming Josi Kander, Architectural Lighting Designer and Project Manager, to Adaptive Design Group!

Josi joins our team as an Architectural Lighting Designer and Project Manager, bringing with her an impressive blend of academic achievement and real-world design experience. With a PhD in Engineering Education, a Master’s in Building Systems Engineering, and a background in architectural lighting across NYC, Seattle, Denver, and Aspen—Josi brings both depth and elegance to every project.

Now based in our Park City, Utah office, she specializes in lighting that enhances architectural intent and elevates how spaces are experienced.

We’re thrilled to have her on the team and can’t wait for what’s ahead. Welcome, Josi!

Contact us for your residential project.

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Lighting isn’t just functional — it’s foundational.
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At Adaptive Design Group, our Adaptive Method™ of layered lighting is intentionally designed to enhance and support each layer of the built environment. This featured project focuses on the Interior Design layer — where thoughtful illumination brings textures, finishes, and furnishings to life.⁠
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Lighting isn’t just functional. By highlighting design details with purpose, we create a warm, inviting atmosphere that amplifies the beauty of the interior while setting the perfect tone for the space.⁠
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This is where lighting becomes an essential design element.⁠

Contact us for your integrated layered lighting project.

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Success in Luxury Residences

THE MODERN DESIGN TEAM™

Great architecture isn’t created in silos—it’s built through synergy. At Adaptive Design Group, we believe the most success in luxury residences come from seamless collaboration between the architect, interior designer, and our team of lighting and technology experts.

We don’t just enhance the design—we help bring it to life with fully integrated, biddable and buildable lighting plans that reflect the artistic vision, technical precision, and the client’s exact specifications.

The result? Breathtaking homes that are beautifully lit, highly functional, and timeless in sophistication.

Contact us for your residential lighting and technology project.

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Lighting that dazzles—without ever distracting.
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At Adaptive Design Group, we believe the best architectural lighting isn’t seen—it’s felt.⁠
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When light is thoughtfully integrated into the architecture from the very beginning, it does more than illuminate. It elevates. It enhances. It disappears into the structure while quietly guiding focus, mood, and experience.⁠
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We collaborate with architects and builders to create lighting plans that are not only beautifully intentional—but also fully buildable and biddable. No guesswork. No compromise. Just lighting that protects your design vision and delivers the luxury your clients expect.⁠
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Lighting that dazzles by design. Engineered to disappear.

Contact us for your outdoor lighting project.

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Adaptive Design Group and Basalte: Leading in smart home technology.

@basalte continues to set the standard for merging sleek European design with cutting-edge smart home technology. Their Design Series at the Salt Lake City showroom brought together the best in architecture, interiors, and innovation—all in service of elevated living.

As specialists in lighting design and intelligent controls for luxury residences, Adaptive Design Group was proud to join the conversation on how light and technology shape the way we experience home. This is why we are leading in smart home technology.

Pictured: our founder Glenn Merlin Johnson at the @basalte USA showroom.

Captured beautifully by @mccadegordon.

Contact us for your Smart Home Technology project.

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Trust in Adaptive Design Group

For over 30 years, Adaptive Design Group has been a trusted asset to discerning homeowners, visionary architects, talented interior designers, and dedicated builders.

Why? Because we offer a fully integrated suite of services that ensures every project is beautifully lit, flawlessly engineered, and thoughtfully executed:

🔹 Architectural Lighting Design
🔹 Electrical Engineering
🔹 Custom Lighting Control Systems
🔹 Motorized Window Shading Integration
🔹 Lighting Control Programming
🔹 Full Project Coordination & Support

From concept to completion, our team brings artistry, technical mastery, and decades of experience to every space we touch.

We don’t just design lighting.
We create atmospheres—crafted with purpose, precision, and passion.

Contact us for your residential lighting project and trust in Adaptive Design Group.

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Make your home glow

Not all light is created equal.

What makes your home glow with such elegance and intention? It’s the result of the Adaptive Method®—our proprietary, trademarked approach to layered lighting that brings depth, emotion, and precision to every detail of the home.

From exterior to landscape, we design lighting to elevate architecture and enhance the way people feel within it.

Discover the Adaptive Method®

Contact us for your residential project

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Beyond the Algorithm: The Human Art of Lighting Design

As AI and automation increasingly enter the world of architecture and design, it is easy to assume that lighting design can be generated solely by software. But in the luxury residential arena, nuance, emotion, and architectural intent demand far more than data—they require artistry, intuition, and lived expertise.

That’s where Adaptive Design Group stands apart: as highly experienced designers in business for over 30 years, their approach is rooted in decades of hands-on experience, deep architectural understanding, and a refined eye that technology alone cannot replicate.

Adaptive’s team has been recognized by Residential Systems, CE Pro, and other top-tier industry platforms for their expertise in both lighting and controls. These features highlight a rare combination: precise technical mastery paired with refined creative intuition. AI can interpret data and specs, but it cannot navigate the subtle interplay between an architect’s intent, interior design harmony, and a homeowner’s emotional vision.

Lighting is not just calculated, it’s curated.

What further sets Adaptive Design Group apart is their uniquely holistic and collaborative approach. Working closely with architects, interior designers, landscape professionals, and homeowners, Adaptive weaves lighting into the very fabric of a residence—from concept to completion. Their full-spectrum services include not just architectural lighting design, but also intelligent lighting controls, motorized shading, and electrical engineering.

This integration ensures that lighting becomes an effortless extension of the home’s architecture and lifestyle, rather than a technical afterthought. The result is a seamless, human-centered experience—where every beam, glow, and shadow serves a purpose greater than illumination.

In short, AI may assist, but only Adaptive Design Group’s seasoned professionals truly see the light. We are masters of The Human art of lighting design. We interpret it, infuse it with meaning, and transform structures into emotive, luxurious environments—with craftsmanship that goes far beyond code.

Interesting in learning more? Contact us and schedule a demo today!

Let’s illuminate your vision

“We are Artists with Light and Experts with Technologies…” – Glenn Merlin Johnson, Founder of Adaptive Design Group

At Adaptive, lighting is not an afterthought—it’s a defining element of architecture. We bring both artistry and engineering to every project, designing luminous environments where innovation supports elegance.
Technologies are critical—not only to the design and performance of the home—but to its emotional impact and timeless beauty. That’s the balance we strike: intuitive, human-centered lighting that elevates both form and function. Let’s illuminate your vision.

Contact us for your residential Architectural Lighting project.

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The Art of Illumination at Basalte

We’re proud to share that our Founder & Principal, Glenn Merlin Johnson, was the keynote speaker at the inaugural design series event hosted at @basalte’s USA showroom in Salt Lake City.

Glenn presented The Art of Illumination—a topic rooted in decades of experience designing lighting that enhances architecture, honors intention, and creates emotional resonance in luxury residential spaces.

What an incredible opportunity to speak on The Art of Illumination at Basalte.

Thank you to @basalte for curating such a thoughtful event, and to @mccadegordon for capturing the essence of the evening with precision and beauty.

Contact us for Glenn to speak at your Architectural Lighting Design event.

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