After the Fact:
Kenzō Tange Chair Pavilion
... another experiment in architectural fact-making
Kenzō Tange Chair Pavilion
... another experiment in architectural fact-making
Type: Installation
Site: Cambridge, MA
Date: 2022
School: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
... with Sam Hanson Sheffer, McCloy Leonard, Kate Robinson
Site: Cambridge, MA
Date: 2022
School: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
... with Sam Hanson Sheffer, McCloy Leonard, Kate Robinson
This project proposes the insertion of an architectural fact-making device—a wall—in dialogue with the Kenzō Tange Chair Pavilion, American Architecture (Model).
John Akomfrah:
Listening All Night to the Rain
... the Great British Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Art Biennale
Listening All Night to the Rain
... the Great British Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Art Biennale
Type: Exhibition Design
Site: Venice, Italy
Date: 2024
... with Jessica Reynolds of vPPR Architects and the British Council for the Arts
Site: Venice, Italy
Date: 2024
... with Jessica Reynolds of vPPR Architects and the British Council for the Arts
- Featured on the Architectural Association Website
- Featured on the Harvard Graduate School of Design Website
Exploring post-colonialism, environmental devastation and the politics of aesthetics, Listening All Night To The Rain is Akomfrah’s boldest and most ambitious commission to date. The exhibition brings together eight interlocking and overlapping multimedia and sound installations into a single and immersive environment that tells stories of migrant diasporas in Britain. The exhibition tells global stories through the ‘memories’ of people who represent migrant communities in Britain and examines how multiple geopolitical narratives are reflected in the experiences of diasporic people more broadly.
Chris C.M. Lee + Golden Lane
... a conversation on type
... a conversation on type
Type: Interview
Date: 2022
School: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Publication: PAIRS 03
Date: 2022
School: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Publication: PAIRS 03
For issue 03, I spoke with Chris about Alison and Peter Smithson’s 1953 proposal for Golden Lane, an urban housing competition for the city of London. A series of 16-story high slab buildings linked by a network of “streets in the sky”, the proposal focused on four distinct scales: the house, the street, the district, and the city. Although never built, the proposal for Golden Lane became the ideological predecessor to Robin Hood Gardens and challenged post-war housing typologies in England. What followed was a conversation about type, housing as infrastructure, architecture’s capacity to engender new social conditions, and most notably—architects and their enduring ideological projects.
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Counter- :
New Cultural Institutions for Liverpool
... an intermediate unit
New Cultural Institutions for Liverpool
... an intermediate unit
Unit: Undergraduate Option Studio
Site: Liverpool, UK
Date: 2023 - 2024
School: Architectural Association
... with Jessica Reynolds
Site: Liverpool, UK
Date: 2023 - 2024
School: Architectural Association
... with Jessica Reynolds
In this brief, we will focus our efforts of formulating
specific proposals for a counter-museum in Liverpool.
The designs will follow the logic of students’ architectural
obsessions, resulting in rigorous and legible architectural
interventions. Clear spatial, material, and atmospheric
strategies will be established in response to this brief.
The interventions will challenge the existing fabric and
function of the museums and take a stance on the role
of institutions in the production of cultural knowledge.
These counter-proposals should create new models of
accessing collections, engaging diverse audiences, and
challenging institutional norms.
A Matter of Fact:
Down to a Science
... an experiment in architectural fact-making
Down to a Science
... an experiment in architectural fact-making
Type: Master in Architecture Thesis, with Distinction
Site: Boston, MA
Date: 2022
School: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Advisors: Megan Panzano + Lisa Haber-Thomson
Site: Boston, MA
Date: 2022
School: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Advisors: Megan Panzano + Lisa Haber-Thomson
- Nominated for the GSD James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize
The popularization of science has historically been understood as the extension of experience from the few to the many. In many ways, determined by the manner of seeing, early modern science and fact-making gained credibility through reproducibility, or rather, the multiplication of witnessing. Through the multiplication of witnessed experiences, Robert Boyle’s seventeenth century experiments in pneumatics represent the development of the experimental performance, making matters of fact both social and epistemological.
