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Yui Hay Lee is the President and CEO of YHLA Architects, an architectural and planning firm he founded in Oakland, California in 1980. Throughout the three decades of professional practice, the firm has been committed to excellence in design and to providing quality architectural services to its clients. YHLA practices in California, Florida, Taiwan as well as the People's Republic of China.

Mr. Lee was born in China and raised in Hong Kong. He graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Having been awarded with numerous honors for academic and design excellence at Miami, he was awarded in 1964 a scholarship to study at the prestigious Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau, France, where he earned a Diploma in Architecture with honor. In 1967, he received his Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Long active in public affairs in local community, Mr. Lee had served as a member of the Oakland Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board under Mayor Jerry Brown. Previously he was appointed By Mayor Elihu Harris to the Oakland City Planning Commission from 1991 to 1994 and was elected as the Commission's Chairman in 1993-1994. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Oakland Asian Cultural Center; the Oakland Consolidated Chinese Association; the Metropolitan Oakland Chamber of Commerce, and the Summit Hospitals Foundation of Oakland.