Andy Lee is a currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at Pratt Institute. He is a current Emerging Curator Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and an Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellow for 2024-2026. Prior to Pratt, he was the Fellow in Architectural Activism at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and the Charles Eliot Traveling Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His research engages a series of films produced by the Department of the Interior during the Cold War and screened throughout the Global South as a part of their large-scale infrastructure-building civilian aid missions during the time. These (e)motion pictures produced an aesthetic and deeply emotional sensing of US infrastructural projects: haptic embodiments of American consumerism. US-built infrastructures in the Global South became forms of desire, fantasy, and fetish. Andy’s current work takes a queer orientation of the cinematic body and explores the films’ instructive potential in the construction of a Cold War planetary aesthetic for our own forms of planetary action today.

They have recently been published in the Journal of Architectural Education, and presented work on the formation of a global Picturesque at MoMA’s Third Ecology Conference, hosted in Reykjavik by the Icelandic University for the Arts and EAHN, in addition to other presentations at the National Technical University of Athens and Tecnológico de Monterey in Querétaro. Currently on view at the UWM SARUP Gallery is memory loss, which was exhibited in conjunction with the recent Viewsheds symposium he organized (4/17-4/18). They will be presenting new work on a queer phenomenology of heritage landscapes at the European Architectural History Network’s biennial conference in Athens in June.  Also coming soon: a film in collaboration with Marilyn Machado Mosquera on the oppositional gaze.