The firm of Claude R. Engle, Lighting Consultant was established in 1968 by Claude R. Engle III to apply his engineering training and experience in theatrical and television lighting to the discipline of architecture.

Committed to the design of lighting as an integral part of architecture, the firm has provided lighting design for leading architects in the United States, Europe, the Far East and Australia on art galleries, concert halls, high-rise office towers, theaters, hotels, underground and surface rapid transit systems, urban development, urban highways, airports and public plazas, including such notable projects as Buckminster Fuller's Dome at the Montreal EXPO, The World Trade Center New York, The Crystal Cathedral, Beaubourg, The Louvre, Paris, the Bilbao Metro, The Reichstag, Berlin, and the Freedom Tower, New York.