PARTNERS

James Ramsey

Founder

James Ramsey is the scuba-diving, fossil-hunting, slide guitar-picking, origami-folding founder of RAAD and creator of the Lowline. 

James studied architecture at Yale University, where he won a Bates Fellowship to study gothic cathedrals. James worked as a satellite engineer for NASA, where he was a part of the team that created the Pluto-bound New Horizons and the Saturn-bound Cassini satellites.

James founded RAAD in 2004. He has taught at Parsons School of Design, taught and lectured at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, the Kremlin, and the South Korean Congress. Although starring in a Range Rover commercial for the New Yorker was cool and all, his greatest achievement was an appearance on “Liquid Science",” a tv show hosted by the Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA.

James was born on the Upper West Side to a mother from Seoul and a father from the valleys of Tennessee. He moved with his family to Kyoto when he was one year old, where his first words were in (now forgotten) Japanese. Back in NYC, he starred on Sesame Street, where he helped the beloved Jim Henson puppets teach kids how to read. James now splits his time between Tribeca and Tennessee.

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Kibum Park

Partner

Kibum Park joined RAAD Studio in 2005 and now serves as Design Director. He specializes in visualizations, lighting design, and in the innovative use of materials.

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Sangyun Han

Partner

Sangyun Han joined RAAD Studio in 2006. He serves as RAAD’s Director of Operations and leads production. Sangyun ensures smooth and systemic organization of project management.

Mike House, RA

Partner

Mike House is an architect, builder and native New Yorker with a deep interest in the urban built environment. He began his career as a laborer and carpenter, renovating abandoned buildings on the Lower East Side as part of the area’s homestead movement.

Mike joined raad in 2011 and has worked on numerous projects with the firm as a designer, project manager and eventually associate partner. After more than 10 years of collaboration Mike branched out to work on the Construction Management side of the industry and works with the firm as Architect of Record on most projects. He is a licensed architect in New York and Connecticut.