Mark Lee is a founder and principal of architectural firm Johnston Marklee & Associates of Los Angeles. He shapes the firm's collaboration with advanced research teams composed of innovative thinkers and designers from professional and academic disciplines.
His expertise and immersion in both historical and contemporary construction methods and building practices has contributed to an award winning body of work which has been exhibited internationally.
Mark Lee has been a faculty member of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) since 1998. As the coordinator of the Graduate Core Program, he is responsible for shaping the academic structure and content within the core sequence.
His architectural works include the Sale House, a new extension to an already famous building in the Los Angeles beachfront community of Venice Beach.
Mark Lee studied architecture at the University of Southern California, and the Harvard Design School (Graduate School of Design).
He presented the paper Island Life in the working group, Common housing - gated communities at the inaugural Holcim Forum 2004 in Zurich and he moderated the workshop Normative Urbanism: between convention and differentiation at the 2nd International Holcim Forum 2007 in Shanghai. He was a member of the Holcim Awards jury for region Asia Pacific in 2008.
[last updated 21-Aug-10]