About
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.
Education
- MSc in Architecture The Cooper Union, New York
- M.Arch. I Tunghai University, Taichung
- B.S. in Civil Engineering National Taiwan University, Taipei
Manifesto
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.