Gloria Lee

Founding Partner of Swift Lee Office (SLO).

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    Gloria Lee, Founding Partner, Swift Lee Office, USA at the 5th International LafargeHolcim Forum on “Infrastructure Space” held April 2016 in Detroit, USA.

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    Gloria Lee, Founding Partner, Swift Lee Office (SLO), at the 4th International Holcim Forum 2013 in Mumbai.

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    Global Holcim Awards 2012 finalist certificate handover for "Zero net energy school building", Los Angeles, USA (l-r): Project authors Nathan Swift and Gloria Lee, Swift Lee Office, Los Angeles with Holcim representative Paul O’Connor, Manager, Marketing Communications, Holcim (US).

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    Winner of the Holcim Awards Silver 2011 North America for "Zero net energy school building, Los Angeles, CA, USA", Gloria Lee, Swift Lee Office, Los Angeles, USA.

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    Winners of the Holcim Awards Silver 2011 North America for "Zero net energy school building, Los Angeles, CA, USA" (l-r): Gloria Lee and Nathan Swift, Swift Lee Office, Los Angeles, USA

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    Presentation of Global Holcim Awards 2012 finalist certificate for "Zero net energy school building", Los Angeles, USA (l-r): Paul O’Connor, Holcim US; Krisztina Tokes, Director of Asset Management, LAUSD; Brianna Garcia, Charter School/Prop 39, LAUSD; Nathan Swift and Gloria Lee, Swift Lee Office (SLO); Kevin Newman, AIA, Senior Design Manager, LAUSD; Nicci Solomons, Hon. AIACC, Executive Director AIA/Los Angeles: a Chapter of the AIA.

Gloria Lee is a Founding Partner of Swift Lee Office (SLO), based in Los Angeles, USA and was winner of the Holcim Awards Silver 2011 for North America for Zero net energy school building, Los Angeles, USA.

Last updated: April 17, 2018 Los Angeles, USA

Gloria Lee co-founded SLO with Nathan A Swift in 2000. Prior to establishing SLO, she worked at Mack Architects, playing a key role in the design of many of the award winning single and multi-family residential projects, and at DMJM in Los Angeles where she gained extensive knowledge in public and commercial design.

SLO were winners of the Holcim Awards Silver 2011 for North America for Zero net energy school building, Los Angeles, USA.

Gloria Lee obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from The University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters of Architecture from Harvard University.

She is a member of the Board of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture & Urban Design, the Korean American Scholarship Foundation, and the Korea Arts Foundation of America.

She is recipient of the Oberdick Teaching & Research Fellowship (2001/02) at the University of Michigan. She has taught summer programs at Sci-Arc, USC, and Harvard University – and has been a guest critic at USC, UCLA, Sci-Arc, Otis and Woodbury. 

Gloria Lee was a Lab Operator in S-Lab dedicated to small-scale projects at the 1st “Next Generation” Awards Lab held in New York City in September 2015.