This lecture was approved for one CEU unit of HSW by the AIA.
M. David Lee, FAIA, NOMA, and President of Stull and Lee, Inc. Courtesy of Stull and Lee, Inc.
Trained amid the turmoil of the 1960s and the Vietnam War, M. David Lee will discuss the challenge he has felt throughout his career to not just strive for strong design and placemaking but to search for that additional dimension necessary to make the work socially and politically relevant, especially in underserved and under-resourced neighborhoods. Often working with limited budgets, Stull and Lee, Inc. architecture, urban design, and planning firm that was established by the late Donald L. Stull, and now under M. David Lee’s leadership, operates under the premise that “the materials don’t have to be precious, but the proportions do.”
This lecture was approved for one CEU unit of HSW by the AIA.
This lecture was approved for one CEU unit of HSW by the AIA.
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About M. David Lee
M. David Lee is an award-winning architect, planner, and educator who has completed plans and buildings nationwide. David has held faculty positions at The Rhode Island School of Design, MIT, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Architectural projects completed under his leadership include the Savin Hill MBTA Transit Station, the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute at Northeastern University, Morning Star Baptist Church, and the Dewitt Center, all in Boston, and Oakwood Shores Terrace Apartments in Chicago, Illinois. Completed under his direction in 2020, is The Clarion, a mixed-use mixed-income apartment building in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.
John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute at Northeastern University. Courtesy of Stull and Lee.
Current projects under his direction include The Rio Grande Tower, a proposed 26-story, mixed-use retail, office, and residential building in Boston’s Nubian Square district and the 66-unit Colonial Village mixed income townhouses in Norwalk, Connecticut. Under a contract with the City Council of New Orleans, David worked with a group of local and national consultants charged with developing plans for the neighborhoods most impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
Appointed by the Mayor and the Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, David led the Citizen’s Advisory Committee charged with creating a civic vision and guidelines for the strategic development of air rights over the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston. This widely acclaimed effort received a National American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor Award for Urban Design.
David served as President of the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) in 1992. He was the recipient of the BSA’s Year 2000 Award of Honor. In 2007, David was one of three American design resource persons invited to present at the National Endowment for the Arts and Conference of Mayor’s inaugural International Mayor’s Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Along with his late business partner and the firm’s founder, Donald Stull, FAIA, David was awarded the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Southwest Corridor Linear Park. Courtesy of Stull and Lee.
