Experience

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  International Living Future Institute

  • Just Label - Technical Advisory Committee Member

    • Sep 2023 - Present

    The International Living Futures Institute developed and administers a few environmental and social sustainability certifications that include the Living Building certification and the Just Label. I was selected to join the Technical Advisory Committee for the Just Label. From their website: Just® marks the beginning of a new era of corporate transparency. ILFI invites organizations everywhere to evaluate themselves through this social justice and equity lens and become a Just® organization. With support from participating organizations, Just® will help create a better, more socially just and equitable world. Help your organization optimize policies that improve social equity and enhance employee engagement.

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  LivableStreets Alliance

  • United States
  • Public Policy Offices
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Chair of the Board of Directors

    • Jul 2023 - Present

  • Board Member

    • Jun 2019 - Present

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  BCS - Building Consultation Services

  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Project Architect and Manager

    • Mar 2021 - Present
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Owner representation and project advising for real estate development. Jason typically manages 3-4 projects concurrently, assisting owner/developers through all design phases and the construction process. BCS is known for large scale, multifamily, podium construction but is experienced in all forms of commercial real estate projects.

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  FMRA LLC

  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Founder

    • Apr 2018 - Present
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    FMRA partners with clients to design for equity in the civic realm.We believe the future of our society will be the product of all our voices - from the least to the most enfranchised citizens of our community. It will be more resilient because it will celebrate polyvocality, mutual respect, and equity. We use the tools and tactics of design thinking, human centered design, architecture, and urban design to help our clients realize their part of this vision.

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  MIT designX

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Advisory Board Member and Mentor

    • Nov 2016 - Present
    • Cambridge, Massachusetts

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  Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll)

  • Mentor

    • Sep 2019 - Dec 2020

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  Agncy

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Co-founder & Executive Design Director

    • Jun 2016 - Jun 2018
    • Greater Boston Area

    We apply design to complex systems with the goal of reducing structural inequality in America. We use design to solve pressing social issues.

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  Continuum

  • greater boston area

  • Senior Designer

    • Aug 2013 - Jun 2016
    • greater boston area

    Jason Lee joined Continuum in 2013, bringing with him ten years of experience as an architect and urban designer in Europe, Asia and North America. He is passionate about designing spatial, energetic and social systems to enhance user experience across all scales - from product to architecture to urban. In his capacity as Senior Designer, he participates in projects across the organization's offerings from strategy to environments and advanced systems. He is also responsible for expanding Continuum's offering into the realm of architecture, urban design and strategic planning/design.At Continuum, Jason has worked with one of the nation’s largest restaurant chains, to rebuild their entire brand – from food to menu to brand experience. He has also worked with one of the nation’s largest home improvement retailers to strategize and envision the future of big box store in the age of multichannel retail. Most recently he worked with the Department of Homeland Security of the Future of the first responder and a non-profit CCRC provider in Southern California to develop a middle income urban housing model for seniors. In 2014, Jason led an internal team to design a house for the year 2050 entitled ‘The House of Z’.

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  Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Chicago, Illinois

  • Visiting Adjunct Professor

    • Jul 2013 - Jul 2014
    • Chicago, Illinois

    Jason was honored to join the teaching team of IIT's College of Architecture for the Fall semester 2013 and Spring semester 2014 at the behest of Dean Arets and program Director Vedran Mimica. As part of the new CLOUD STUDIO offering for all degree programs within the college, Jason developed a studio entitled: Systems Theory and Urban Form: Remapping Chicago through the lens of Thermodynamics. A short description of the studio ambition:With our more nuanced understanding of energy, arrived at through systems theory and thermodynamics, our current appreciation of the finite nature of fuel resources, and as our metropolises mature away from industrial hubs into information / knowledge centers, it is necessary to reimagine the relationship between living, working, energy production, energy consumption and industrial processes. This studio will attempt to address the questions: Can we reconfigure programmatic relationships and adjacencies at the urban scale to create productive energy cascades and derive maximum power from energetic systems? And, how will a more comprehensive understanding of energy influence the form of the future metropolis?A full description of the studio and the entire CLOUD STUDIO offering is available here:http://www.iitcoadatacloud.com/strands/design/cloud-studios/Please follow the student work through our BLOG:http://remappingchicago.wordpress.com/

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  Northeastern University

  • Boston

  • Lecturer

    • Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
    • Boston

    Comprehensive Design Studio Instructor5th year undergraduate terminal studio in Northeastern University's 5 year bachelor of architecture program. Student team of Debby Yeh, Matt Stoner, Likas LaLiberte and David Parker won 3C Competition - Comprehensive Coastal Communities:http://www.3ccompetition.org/finalists.htmlon NEU website:http://www.northeastern.edu/camd/architecture/2013/10/school-architecture-alumni-win-3c-competition/on inhabi

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  de Architekten Cie.

  • Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

  • Associate / Director Cie.Asia

    • Jan 2005 - Jan 2013
    • Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

    Over the eight years Jason worked at the acclaimed housing and urban design firm, de Architekten Cie, he rose through the ranks to become Director of Cie.Asia and Associate on the board. While at Cie, Jason designed projects on 5 continents ranging from historic preservation, commercial /retail, offices, corporate headquarters, multifamily social/affordable housing, transit hubs, large scale urban planning, regional planning and various public institutions. He managed interdisciplinary teams of architects, engineers, draughtsmen, consultants and subconsultants through the design and construction process. He was also responsible for client and government relationship management for numerous architectural and long term urban design projects. Jason was instrumental in establishing the Shanghai office, growing it from 1 person to 15 people in partnership with a local design studio. He won numerous international competitions most notably the Gangnam social/affordable housing project in Seoul, Tianjin's railway station in Tianjin, and Cafe Open in Amsterdam.

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  BSN Architects

  • intern architect

    • 2003 - 2004