Yuliya de la Calle
Yuliya de la Calle is the founder and Lead Designer of Station 22, a bureau specializing in architectural lighting and daylighting design. Yuliya is an experienced and award-winning lighting designer with over 10 years of experience.
Over her career, Yuliya has worked on more than 100 lighting and daylighting projects, including for large corporations such as IBM, Salesforce and Sixty Hotel, renowned art centers and fairs like the Venice Architectural Biennale, MoMA PS1 New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as for major public infrastructure such as the Seattle and San Francisco airports and the Lowline in New York. For more details on Yuliya’s key projects, please click here.
Prior to founding Station 22, Yuliya was a Senior Consultant for six years at Arup, a global leading services firm in design, engineering, architecture and planning. At Arup, Yuliya led multiple client accounts as a project manager and also contributed to the internal R&D program by researching lighting design within the circular economy and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals framework.
Before focusing on lighting, Yuliya was an architect at Steven Holl Architects in New York, working on Ex of In House and T space in Hudson Valley, NY, and multiple competitions worldwide.
As a result of her broad and diverse background within the built environment, Yuliya is enabled to oversee and collaborate throughout all phases of design: from concept to commissioning, all while combining fundamental sustainability practices and a unique artistic perspective.
Yuliya has a dual-master’s degree in Architecture and Lighting Design from Parsons the New School for Design, New York, and was a recipient of a fully-funded Dean’s scholarship. She also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Spatial Design from Samara State University. Yuliya is also a certified LEED AP.
Yuliya is an American and Russian citizen currently living in Paris, France, with her husband Sergio, son Alexandre and daughter Philippa.
Jenny Werbell
Jenny Werbell joined Station 22 in early 2024 working with Yuliya to open, and then run the New York studio. Jenny has over 10 years of professional experience as a lighting designer, with several award winning projects spanning the globe, and has worked in a wide range of project typologies, and at all scales, from education and higher education, to places of worship, commercial, retail, museums and galleries, residential, multi-use residential, and government buildings.
Jenny is passionate about both electric lighting design and daylighting design. She began her lighting design career at Buro Happold Engineering, where she performed daylight studies and analysis to inform architectural decisions for aesthetic effects as well as optimizing daylight autonomy of interior spaces during the day. Her daylight studies have also informed art and exhibition conservation and shading for thermal and visual comfort.
Jenny went on to work at WeWork in the internal lighting design team. She was on the Global Lighting team to set design standards for all WeWork’s across the globe, holding weekly meetings with the lighting heads in each global office. She was also the designer or co-designer for WeWork’s headquarters in New York, San Francisco and London. Jenny went on to collaborate with several design firms, Silver Shoe Design, James Clotfelter Lighting Design, and Derek Porter Studio, before joining Essential Light Design Studio in 2022 as director of the New York Studio. Since 2021, Jenny has been the outreach coordinator at Light Reach, a large-scale, multi-program and global solar lighting initiative designed to scale-up social action in the field of lighting design and fight light poverty around the world.
Prior to becoming a lighting designer, Jenny had a career in museum and gallery exhibtions. She worked at the Jewish Museum for 5 years in the education and curatorial publications departments. She then transitioned as a graphic designer, providing logos and branding, exhibition text design and marketing materials. While at Parsons, she co-curated an exhibit “Cambodia: Drop by Drop You Will Feel the Water” and was the exhibition designer for the Parsons annual alumni exhibition in 2013.
In 2017, Jenny was named a Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Emerging Leader. She has spoken at several lighting conferences in her hometown New York City, as well as globally in Scotland, France, and most recently in Canada.
Jenny has double masters of fine arts degrees in Lighting Design and Interior Design from Parsons the New School for Design, New York, and was a recipient of the Victoria Hagan scholarship. She as a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology from Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Since graduating from Parsons, Jenny has taught lighting design at Parsons at the graduate and undergraduate level.
Jenny lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, John and their two young children, Maxine and Lou.