Architect and thinker working between Taipei and New York, at scales from the hand to the territory.
Kai-Min Lee is an architect and thinker originally from Taipei, currently based in New York City. His academic and professional work centers on the spatial tensions between mega-scale infrastructure and the human body — examining how frameworks, both physical and virtual, mediate our perception of the built environment.
I firmly believe that even the smallest architectural elements — a tectonic detail, a screw on a wall — can influence human behavior and shape our environment. Yet the significant scale difference between our bodies and our surroundings often obscures this relationship.
In Taiwan, we encounter a fascinating array of architectural phenomena: from small informal structures to expansive highway ramps in suburban areas, where beauty and disorder coexist. These elements are too often dismissed as random fragments rather than recognized as a coherent architectural identity. I believe that by rethinking their construction mechanisms and understanding how and why these structures came to be, we can develop a more systematic approach to bridging the gap between humanity and its environment.
Selected CV
2023MArch, The Cooper Union
2020Practice, Taipei
2017BArch, Tunghai University
— CV, 2026 PDF on request
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