Scope and Contents This collection consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, sketches, drawings, blueprints, documents, and objects. Photographs and newspaper articles portray Lee’s life in New York and China, his family, and his architectural projects. Letters and documents record business transactions, proposals, legal contracts and the experiences after the Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. The objects encompass some of the essential tools of the trade used by an architect. Lee...

Abstract This interview follows the life and career of William Louie, an esteemed Chinese-American architect heading Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, a leading global urban architectural firm originally based in New York. A native of the city, he grew up between his family laundry in Southern Bronx and the Lee family association in Chinatown, during which he attended both public school and Chinese school from a young age. He went on to train at the Institute of Design and Construction, where he was...