The design collective of Temporary Office, led by Yee Foo Lai and Douglas Lee, and sometimes in collaboration with friends and colleagues, has worked on several projects crossing the boundaries of architecture, public space-making and preservation. With a strong focus on historic research and precedence, the Temporary Office team seeks to constructively respond to the ever-changing needs of our environment in a rational yet playful way.

Vincent Yee Foo Lai (left) is currently a full-time practicing architectural designer at Adjaye Associates in New York. He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from NUS Singapore, where he received the AKZO Nobel Gold medal for distinction in Architectural Design. He has diverse design and research experience, previously working in leading international firms such as SOM, OPEN Architecture, Vo Trong Nghia Architects, and Aedas.

Douglas Lee (right) is a Chinese-Canadian designer and a Master of Architecture candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning, Design & Management from The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL. His work experience includes OMA/AMO, SANAA, BIG, Neri and Hu, Atelier Deshaus, The Open Workshop and SLA.

Martin Miller

Martin Miller is a designer, researcher, artist, and educator. Along with Mo Zheng, he founded Antistatics Architecture in 2015 as a practice seeking innovative and evolving solutions to challenges within the built environment. Creating works across scales, from installations and interiors, to masterplans and city design, the studio seeks to synergize conventional methodologies with emerging technologies as a dynamic and adaptive design process. 

He received a BFA in Sculpture with minors in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Colorado and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. His work finds synergy between material behavior, conventional construction, robotic automation, and computational processes. Of particular interest is post-digital integration of physical and digital spheres, seeking novel solutions to complex problems through the simulation, analysis, and prototyping of designs simultaneously across media. 

As an educator, he has taught several studios and seminars as an assistant professor in practice at Cornell University, directing the master’s computational design studio, exploring big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and generative form-finding. The elective studios he has taught have investigated the blurring boundaries between physical and online spaces, collective iconographies, digital fabrication techniques, and architecture as narrative.

Levi Wall

Levi Wall lives with his wife, Arwen, and their son Matteo in Lakewood, Colo. 

For the past seven years, he has worked on educational, commercial, and civic projects as a designer and architect at DLR Group's Denver office and has been a frequent reviewer and occasional studio instructor at CU Denver's College of Architecture and Planning.

Before that, he graduated with his Master of Architecture from Kansas State University and helped design commercial buildings and masterplans in Colorado and Bangkok as a designer at AU Workshop in Fort Collins, Colo.

Levi is interested in immediacy in architectural systems, leading him to experiment with IKEA-hacking, and has researched the ethical underpinnings and potential of design and building processes, creating and hosting a session for AIA's 2019 conference titled "How to Design Ethics".