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
2024Practice, New York
2023MSc Arch, The Cooper Union
2020Practice, Taipei
2017M.Arch I, Tunghai University
2013B.S. Civil Eng., NTU
— CV, 2026 PDF on request
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