Architecture Work Sample

Christie J. Lee 628 N. 4th Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48104 770.262.0670 | christie.j.lee@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Master of Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Summer Intensive Studio: B.A.S.E. (Beijing, China)

2009

B.S. Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

2004

2007

Studio Art Minor: Design, Jewelry and Metal Arts

Sponsored Projects: UIHC Information Systems: Blood Product Safe Practices Implementation:

2004

Process mapping for implementation of blood transfusion identification system

Rockwell-Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA)

2003

Developed simulation model of manufacturing processes and proposed improvements.

EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant: Taubman College of Architecture (Ann Arbor, MI)

Present

Furniture Line- Directed by Dean Monica Ponce de Leon Research trends and case studies. Designing, and building prototypes of office furniture for digital fabrication and serial production. Redesign of existing office layout..

Rainy Sea Maps- Directed by Associate Professor Keith Mitnick Assisted with conceptual and schematic drawings for publication.

Architectural Intern: SB-Architects (San Francisco, CA)

2008

Generated conceptual designs, site layouts, site research, as well as plan drawings and renderings for large scale resorts.

Architectural Intern: URBANUS (Beijing, China)

2007

Built scale models, proposed interior design schemes, participated in design charettes, and designed furniture for projects throughout China of varied scales.

Engineering Intern: Silgan Plastics Corporation (Norcross, GA)

2004

Conducted data collection and statistical analysis for quality control experiments.

Generated new concepts for bottle designs and conducted trend research.

Researched tooling vendors to develop relationships for the incubation of smaller companies. and to ensure competitive pricing.

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

“One Good Chair� International Design Competition, semifinalist The Design Show, juried exhibition. Slusser Gallery (Ann Arbor, MI) The Architecture of Objects, juried exhibition. TCAUP (Ann Arbor, MI)

Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Maxwell Renderer Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Microsoft Office Suite Digital Photography and editing Wood and metal working, digital fabrication

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Christie J. Lee Work Samples

Masters Thesis: Sublimity of Self Through Baroque Devices

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The program of a drug rehabilitation center offers conditions ripe for philosophical inquiry. The time spent in such an institution represents a pivotal moment for an addict, heavy with the traumatic personal experience that each patient brings to this place. These personal experiences become the backdrop and lens for the experience of the institution.

Spatial devices borrowed from Baroque art and architecture become illustrative of the sublimity of the patients’ condition, where conflicts of free-will vs. institutional control, nature vs. construct battle for a resolution that may never be actualized.

The architecture becomes an elastic stage, to be shaped and colored with the contradictory nature of the rehabilitation process.

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Christie J. Lee Work Samples

Masters Thesis: Sublimity of Self Through Baroque Devices

The Reception Entry as seen upon arrival-- the drama of the patient’s experience is expressed in the architecture, which takes on contrasting degrees of light/dark, open/close, expansion/compression, control/freedom, all corresponding to the program. These contrasts mirror the conflicts within the individual. The architecture embodies the self, and the embodied self is sublime.

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1” = 128’

The Reception Entry as seen from the clinic entrance-- the same spaces are experienced differently depending on the patient’s progress into the program.

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Christie J. Lee Work Samples

NYC Underground University

A hypothetical think tank is constructed in the guise of the expansion of the 66th St and Broadway’s subway station into a shopping corridor. The public face of the University protrudes out across the intersection, as its covert counterpart lies behind the walls of the shopping corridor, wrapping under and around the subway line, weaving the ultra private with the ultra public.

Christie J. Lee Work Samples

Natatorium, IIT Campus

Intersecting bands create a structural system, where moments of spanning and touchdown divide program, defining light and space.

Merging into the ground creates paths which run over and through the building, drawing the public into the university.

Christie J. Lee Work Samples

Mexico City High-rise

massing study

High-rises often represent a force of globalization imposing a uniform style of steel and glass like a franchise upon other cultures. This project seeks to consider vernacular Mexican culture in a high-rise for Mexico City on the current site of Torre Major.

Christie J. Lee Work Samples

Objects: Ikebana Vase, Mylar Lamp, Rocking Stool

With digital design and fabrication, extensive finishing work was done by hand. A hollow construction saves weight and material.