About Me
(Looney) Lei Ye
leiye@gsd.harvard.edu | Cambridge, Massachusetts
EDUCATION
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- 08/2019-06/2021 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cross-registeraton - -
- 08/2019-06/2021 Harvard Graduate School of Design
Master in Design Studies
Art, Design and the Public Domain - -
- 08/2018-06/2019 University of California Berkeley
Master of Architecture
Studio one - -
- 09/2012-06/2018 South China University of Technology
Bachelor of Architecture - -
- 07/2016-08/2016 Delft University of Technology
Summer School Program with Certificate - -
- 09/2012-06/2013 South China University of Technology
Electronic Commerce
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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- 06/2020- Yimei Construction
Architectural Designer
Construction documentation
Design consulting - -
- 06/2020-08/2020 Covariance Labs LLC
Product Designer
website design
product mockup
web interface design - -
- 10/2019-12/2019 Harvard Kennedy School
Technology Designer
Research and test 3rd-party course design tools
Write and maintain technical support
Redesign the visual look - -
- 09/2017-11/2017 Nanjing Design Branch of Pan-China Group
Intern, full time - -
- 02/2016-03/2017 I_Archer Studio
Intern, part time
AWARDS
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- 12/2017 Bronze Award
Exhibition of Architectural Design in Developing Countries - -
- 12/2017 Bronze Award
Global Students Design Competition - -
- 09/2017 Honorable Mention
UIA-HYP Cup 2017 International Student in Architectural Design - 12/2018 Honorable Mention
Tianhua Art& Tech Cup 2018 International Student Design competition
HONORS
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- 07/2020 Summer Research Grant, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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- 07/2019 Scholarship, California Innovation Program
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- 06/2018 Fellowship, Anji rammed earth workshop funded by FAW Volkwagen
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- 06/2013 Second Prize, College Mathematics Competition
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- 09/2013 Third Prize, Merit Academic Scholarship
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- 09/2013 Excellent Student, South China University of Technology
SKILLS
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- Graphic Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign | AutoCAD
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- 3d modeling Rhino | Sketch up | Unity
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- Animation & video Modo | After Effects | Premiere | Mad Mapper
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- Interactive C# | Grasshopper | Touch deisgner | OpenFranmeworks | Processing
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- Visualization Vray | Enscape | Keyshot | Deapthmap
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- Web front-end Html /CSS | JavaScript | P5.JS | D3.JS
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- Prototyping Sketch | Figma | Adoben XD
PROJECTS
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- 12/2016-01/2017 SCUT Anti-poverty Project
Old House Renovation in Kongmei Village of Chaozhou City
>>Participating in the schematic design and contributing for final drawings. - -
- 03/2016-03/2017 Student Research Program-SCUT
>>Research on Chungking Mansions on Urban Scale with Space Syntax
>>Attending 2016 International Symposium on Space Syntax in China;
>>Making the presentation “An Adaptive Mechanism of Spatial Structure: Chung King Mansions of Hong Kong” - -
- 08/2015-09/2015 Summer Social Practice Volunteering Project
Pavilion Design-build in Xian Niangxi Village
>>Taking part in the pavilion design and helping to build the structure including the bamboo roof part.
PUBLICATIONS
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- 06/2020 Re:habilitation
Published on Copenhagen Architectural Festival - -
- 11/2019 Tower of Atmosphere
Published on Science Fiction And The Future Of California's Ecology: Studio One 2018-2019 - -
- 11/2017 Homo Ludens
Published on Magazine: UED
Vol. 2, Dec.2017, ISSSN-1672-9080 - -
- 11/2017 Dilemma of Hubei: Historic Preservation and Urban Renewal
Published on Magazine: Engineering Technology
Vol. 2, Sept.2017, ISSSN-1671-5586
EXHIBITIONS
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- 05/02/2020 PANDEMIC: AIRPUSH
Kirkland Gallery
/*Collaborate with Zhengyu Yang and Wei Wu*/ - -
- 04/13/2019 2019 CAL Day
Project: Blue
/*Collaborate with Arine and Ioanna*/ - -
- 03/01/2019 2019 CED CIRCUS : ARCH DESIGN STUDIO WORKS
2018 fall Studio-one project : ”MacGuffin” - -
- 03/01/2019 2019 CED CIRCUS : OTHER WORKS
The independent research : “An Adaptive Mechanism of Spatial Structure: ChungKing Mansions of Hong Kong”
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