Suk Lee | Founding Director  AIA. LEED AP BD+C

Prof. Suk Lee is a licensed architect registered in New York (member of AIA) and a LEED AP BD+C expert. He was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at Kyung Hee University in 2019, and is currently in charge of design research work as a founding director of NAUx LAB. He received his BA in Architectural Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle, and his Master of Architecture (M.Arch) from MIT. Prof. Lee was a recipient of the LafargeHolcim Awards (3rd Prize, 2014) for his algae-based air purification system. In 2017, Prof. Lee was selected as the best graduate of the last decade and received the first GOLD (The Graduate of the Last Decade) Award from UW architecture department. He had professional career as a Project Architect at Steven Holl Architects in New York until 2019, where he was in charge of the construction administration of the Hunters Point Community Library in New York. Since 2019, he has been conducting a number of domestic and international design and research projects as a Founding Director of NAUx lab and as a Founding Partner of the PROJECT-project non-profit organization.