Nicholas Chung graduated with a Master in Design Studies with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is the recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and the Dimitris Pikionis Award. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture with Minor in Geography from Syracuse University (Summa Cum Laude). His scholarship is focused on architectural Modernism in East Asia, with a strong interest in the Metabolism movement, material aesthetics, theory, and urbanism. Prior to joining the GSD, Nicholas was a researcher at MATR Lab whilst working on architectural and urban planning projects at Horizontal Design and WXY Architecture + Urban Design. He has taught design at Syracuse and lectured on history and theory at Washington University St. Louis and the Harvard East Asia Society. Nicholas has been awarded Grand Prize for the 2022 Busan International Architecture Design Workshop and his works has been shown at multiple international exhibitions including the Busan Architectural Festival, Shenzhen + Hong Kong Urbanism/Architecture Bi-City Biennale, and Affordable Art Fair (London and Singapore). He was recently a gallery curator at Yale School of Architecture.