A practice built between the building and the lot.

Soohee Lee is a New York–licensed architect and urbanist with more than twenty years of experience in architecture, urban design, landscape, and urban sustainability.

Early in her career at Kohn Pedersen Fox, she worked on skyscrapers and large-scale complex urban projects, developing a strong foundation in architectural design, technical coordination, and multidisciplinary delivery. After founding SAN, she applied that experience to highly regulated institutional and commercial work, including projects at the World Trade Center, while continuing architectural, urban, and ecological design work in the United States and internationally.

Her work increasingly explores the relationship between the built environment and ecological systems. As a Guest Researcher at TU Delft, she developed Micro Green Corridors™, a framework for transforming underutilized privately owned micro-lots into distributed urban ecological infrastructure, published in 2026.

Lee is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New York Institute of Technology and founder of the SAN Institute of Design and Technology. She holds a master’s degree in Architectural Design from Columbia University and a master’s degree in Urban Design and Landscape Architecture from Seoul National University. She is a Registered Architect in New York State and LEED AP.