Wei Jien

Project Director Wei Jien (Taiwan) grew up in Brisbane, Australia. She is a registered architect in Australia and earned her MA in Urban Design from Queensland University of Technology. Wei joined L’Observatoire International in 2012, as part of the team that worked with LVMH and their luxury retail projects. Wei’s role evolved into a project lead, and she is responsible for a variety of project types and scales—such as Facebook offices with Gehry Partners, New York restaurant The Grill at the Seagram, and various projects with Steven Holl Architects, including the expansion at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Glassell School of Art, and the Nancy and Rich Kinder building.

For Wei, the most rewarding and challenging part is finishing a project: “Focusing and final scene settings are when we see the concepts come to life. It can be a small project, like the Frédéric Malle perfume store in Greenwich Village, or a large one, like the REACH at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC—the result is a balance between science and art that is really magical.”