MEET THE DESIGNER
Hannah Lee Sun is a South Korean-American artist and architectural designer based in San Francisco, CA. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. Sun initially filled her schedule with garment construction and dyeing courses to fulfill her passion for wearables. Her passions expanded halfway through undergraduate one semester when she took both a Machine Knitting and Hand in Parametric Design digital course. Gaining access to the hot steel studio, she would create designs on the computer and then weld them in steel. Being an inherently tactile maker, Sun needed a soft “skin” to cover her cold bone structures in. She used her garment skills to pattern large machine-knit panels to finish the forms. Her colorful soft sculptures opened her mind to spatial design and how she could embark on larger scale, more advanced projects.
During the height of the pandemic in 2020, Sun started applying to architecture programs across the country. In 2021, she decide to embark on her M.Arch degree at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. Hannah learned more than she could imagine- realizing how to document and construct technical drawings. She expanded upon these skills by assistant teaching multiple classes- like Structures and Integrated Tectonic Systems. At CCA, Hannah was awarded the Kaz Baba Travel Fund which is given out yearly in memorial of Architect Kaz Baba. This award is given to a student to see a proposed architecture and ideally document it through sketching.
Hannah’s practice and passions lie at the intersection of art and architecture. With a love of fine arts practices and contemporary art, Hannah want to create large scale work that brings people together. She believes that thoughtful design has the power to do so. When Hannah is not doodling in her sketchbook or creating knit samples, find her in a sculpture garden with a lemonade!