Michael Chen and Jason Lee teach design studios and seminars at Pratt Institute. They both hold undergraduate degrees in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and Master of Architecture degrees from Columbia University.
Michael Chen has taught design at Pratt Institute, Cornell University, Columbia University, and New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a principal of Normal Projects, a multidisciplinary architecture and design firm based in New York and Los Angeles.
Jason Lee has taught design at Pratt Institute and Cooper Union. He is a partner at tentwenty, a multidisciplinary design firm based in New York.
COLLABORATORS
Gil Akos and Ronnie Parsons: studioMode and modeLab
STUDENTS
(2010-2011)
Gabriela Castro, Preston Church, Michael Dolatowski, Patrick Donbeck, Katherine Kania, Tai Li Lee, Younglee Lee, Carla Lores,Christopher McCormick, Vicky Perez, Arn Regencia, Hiram Rodriguez, Scott Segal, Insuk Shin, Michael Yarinsky. TA: Justin Snider
(2009-2010)
Ashkahn Bazl, Rebecca Caillouet, Zakiya Franklin, Sylvia Herrera, Mike House, Edwin Lam, Erik Martinez, Peechaya Mekasuvanroj, Victor Orriola, Roxanne Sadeghpour, Shawn Sims, Sean Stevenson
(2008-2009)
Jose Blanco, Joanna Cheung, Andres Correa, Ivan Delgado, Nick Garate, Allison Hoffman, Heidi Jandris, Kamilla Litvinov, Sebastian Misiurek, Jeos Oreamuno, Jun Pak, Anna Perelman, Cole Reynolds, Brad Rothenberg, John Seward, Jintana Tantinirundr. TA: Dorian Walther, TA: Elliot White
(2007-2008)
Katie Adee, James Baldauf, Leyla Dam, Asta Fivgas, Natasha Harper, Randall Hornung, Irene Huang, Jung Hyuck Im, Dimitris Kaprinis, Yohan Kim, Da Jung Lee, Danielle Meeks, Manny Padilla, Paul Stein, Stephanie Thomas, LeMarr Townsend
Jakarta Transit Network
Jakarta Anna Perelman
The city of Jakarta has the most extensive suburban sprawl of any city in the world and an uneven distribution of urban amenities. As a result residents typically travel hours on congested and occasionally flooded roads to access other parts of the city, snarled in massive traffic jams. This travel constitutes a network of extreme delay and supports an enormous informal commercial marketplace that takes place along roadsides. This informal economy is estimated to account for 60% of the city’s economic activity and is at the same time not recognized as legal nor tabulated.
The city has recently developed a series of dedicated high speed busways, the Transjakarta network to alleviate congestion. Its stations are nevertheless the site of extreme and uncoordinated delay, crowding, and the clearing of the informal marketplaces that drive the city and are essential to its character. The project proposes a novel infrastructure for coordinated delay in the form of a new transit station type that incorporates a flexible membrane architecture to modulate the flow of pedestrian traffic, provide opportunities for clustering and lightweight infrastructure for the emergent street market vendors, and ambient services in the form of rain protection, vehicular exhaust ventilation, lighting, and air conditioning.
