and more — Kevin Hai

Kevin is a designer working within the domains of architecture, urbanism, interiors, graphic design, and culture/media. Currently, he is located in New York City, where he works as a designer at Space Exploration Design. Previously he has worked with firms across the United States and Europe (such as Bjarke Ingels Group and Snøhetta), wrote his thesis on the interim architectures of youth rave networks in Amsterdam, and assisted artists in Paris through the Cité International des Arts à Paris. Through NHDM, he also participated in the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism. At the moment, he is conducting independent research on ad hoc architectures of post-industrial Berlin’s vibrant nightlife and is engaged with various competitions and projects throughout the city. In addition to his professional and independent work, he has lectured, been an invited critic, or taught in varying capacities at Columbia University, New York University, University of Houston, Boston Architectural College, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Austin’s South by Southwest.

Kevin received his Master of Architecture with honors from Columbia University, and his Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture and Bachelor of Arts in French Literature from the University of Houston, summa cum laude. Following the completion of his graduate studies, Kevin was awarded the the Lowenfish Memorial Prize, the Building Technologies Honor Award, and the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize for postgraduate study, allowing him to conduct research on architecture, networks, and territories of interim urbanism in Berlin’s underground, techno cultures. There, he focused on the methodologies with which post-industrial space was appropriated and subverted into ad hoc utopias of simultaneous pragmatism and romanticism—spaces where different logics and desires of the land are projected and overlaid—resulting from the urban modulations and crises beset by the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Work Experience —

Space Exploration Design – Project Designer / Brooklyn, NY / April 2022 - Present
Snøhetta — Designer / New York, NY / November 2020 - April 2022
Bjarke Ingels Group — Designer / New York, NY / May 2019 - November 2020
N H D M — Project Assistant / New York, NY / March 2019 - May 2019
Columbia University — Graduate Teaching Assistant / New York, NY / January 2019 - May 2019
Bjarke Ingels Group— Design Intern / New York, NY / May 2018 - September 2018, January 2020
DDG Partners — Design Intern / New York, NY / May 2017 - September 2017
WE-DESIGNS — Designer / New York, NY / Paris, France / 2016, 2013

Education—

Columbia University — Master of Architecture / 2019
University of Houston — B.S., Interior Architecture / B.A., French / 2016

Publications / Awards / Press —

HOME 2021 Competition Honorable Mention - The Bronx Culture Container Monte d’Oiro Competition Shortlist - Vale-un-Veil / Climate Summit 2020 - Planetary Acupuncture / Abstract 2019 - Portfolio / Abstract 2019 - Cycladic Cliffhanger / Abstract 2019 - Teeny Weeny Santorini / Abstract 2019 - Section Qualities / GSAPP Lowenfish Memorial Prize - Studio Award / GSAPP Building Technologies - Portfolio Award / William Kinne Fellows Prize / Buell Center Paris Prize Finalist / Abstract 2017 - Pier2Peer / Out for Education Award Recipient / AIA Houston Design Award - InsideOut / UH Exemplary Senior Thesis - Rave New World / Cite Magazine - InsideOut / Illuminus Boston - Projective Dualism / Acadia Installation - Projective Dualism / South by Southwest - Pop Rocks / Cité Internationale des Arts Paris - Digital Novelty / Undergraduate Research - PetraTetra / Collected Works Volume 4 / Collected Works Volume 3 / ArchDaily - Vitreous / AIA Austin Design Award / AIA Huron Design Award

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