Bryan Lee, FAIA, NOMA

Bryan C. Lee Jr. NOMA, FAIA is an architect and leading design justice advocate working from New Orleans, Louisiana. As Founder/Director of Colloqate Design, he leads a nonprofit design practice focused on expanding community access to design through organizing, advocacy, and the creation of social, civic, and cultural spaces. A founding organizer of both the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter University, Bryan currently serves as a Design Critic at Harvard Graduate School of Design and is the 2025-26 National NOMA President. His work has been recognized with the 2023 United States Artist Fellowship, 2021 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, and the 2025 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award.