Jennifer Lee (architect)

Jennifer Lee is a Korean-American architect, principal and co-founder of award-winning architectural design firm Obra Architects in New York City, Beijing, and Seoul.

Biography

Jennifer Lee received her Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (1997) after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in English and American Literature from Harvard College (1990).

In 2000 Lee founded Obra Architects[1] with partner Pablo Castro after first working together at the office of Steven Holl Architects. In 2005, the two were selected as Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York,[2] and in 2006 the firm won the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program with their project Beatfuse!.[3] Lee was named the 2007 Cooper Union Urban Visionary Emerging Talent, a member of the Cooper Union Alumni Hall of Fame,[4] and is a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures. She is a designated City of Seoul Public Architect by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea, since 2015. Obra Architects has been selected in 2016 for inclusion in the New York City Department of Design and Construction (NYCDDC) Design Excellence Program to design public buildings and other capital construction projects.[5]

In 2014, Lee and her firm Obra were recognized for the Sanhe Kindergarten[6] project by the Kim Swoo Geun Foundation Preview Prize.[7] “The preview award, which was established in 2013, is for projects which are scheduled for completion, and it reflects the effort and passion of the architect that brings together the work as a whole” in the spirit of Kim Swoo Geun.[8] Her firm has designed private residences in New York,[9] Argentina, and Costa Rica,[10] an emergency shelter exhibited at the National Art Museum of China,[11] an award-winning prefabricated interior construction system called URBIA Furniture System for Small Apartments in Big Cities,[12] and has been included in the 2010 International Building Exhibition, Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Hamburg, the 2011-2012 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale for Architecture\Urbanism, and the International Architecture Biennale in Venice (2014, 2016). The work of her firm has garnered six American Institute of Architects awards[13][14][15][16][17] and three Chicago Athenaeum awards.

Lee has taught at The Cooper Union, Pratt Institute Graduate School of Architecture, and Korea National University of Arts in Seoul, Korea.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "OBRA Architects - Archpaper.com". archpaper.com. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  2. ↑ "The Architectural League of New York | 2005 Emerging Voices". Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  3. ↑ "New York / Young Architects Program". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  4. ↑ "Cooper Union Alumni Association | Hall of Fame". cooperalumni.org. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  5. ↑ "DDC picks 26 firms to design the city's new public buildings - Archpaper.com". archpaper.com. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  6. ↑ "1004 - Domus". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  7. ↑ "Kim Swoo Geun Foundation Preview Prize 2014". kimswoogeun.org.
  8. ↑ "SPACE Magazine". www.vmspace.com. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  9. ↑ "Home Range - Archpaper.com". archpaper.com. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  10. ↑ "Review: Casa Osa". www.world-architects.com. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  11. ↑ "OBRA at work in China". MovingCities.org. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  12. ↑ "URBIA Furniture System by OBRA Architects". Dezeen. 2009-06-24. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  13. ↑ "AIA New York Chapter : 2015 AIANY Design Awards Winners". aiany.aiany.org. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  14. ↑ "AIA New York Announces 2014 Design Award Winners". Contract Magazine. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  15. ↑ "2011 AIANY Design Awards Announced". News (formerly known as eOculus) - AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  16. ↑ "AIA New York announced 2010 Design Award Winners". ArchDaily. 2010-04-12. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  17. ↑ "2008 Winners of AIA New York Design Awards". Dexigner. 2008-03-09. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  18. ↑ "Obra Architects Logic, Selected Projects 2003-2016 - Idea Books". www.ideabooks.nl. Retrieved 2016-11-28.

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