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Mark Lee (architect)
Mark Wai Tak Lee (born September 2, 1967) is a Hong Kong-born American architect and educator, who is based in Cambridge and Los Angeles. Lee is principal and founding partner, along with his wife Sharon Johnston, of the architecture firm Johnston Marklee & Associates, which was founded in 1999. He is also Professor in the Practice of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Career Born in Hong Kong, Lee earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California School of Architecture, and then went on to the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he received a Master of Architecture in 1995. Upon graduating, Lee began his teaching career at the ETH Zurich as an instructor until 1998. At the end of that year, he was appointed as Lecturer (1998-2001) and then as adjunct professor (2001-2004) at the University of Southern California. In 2004, Lee began as assistant professor unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
