Nicholas Chung is a Master of Design Studies (Narratives) student and recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship at Harvard GSD. His work is focused on the history and theory of modern Japanese architecture with special interests in Expo ’70, the understudied decade between post-Metabolism and stylistic Postmodernism, as well as architects’ turn towards philosophy and paper culture in the 1970s-80s. Nicholas has a Bachelor of Architecture with a Minor in Geography from Syracuse University (summa cum laude). At Syracuse, he was the recipient of the SOURCE Fellowship Grant and a teaching assistant for architectural design studios and theory. Nicholas was awarded Grand Prize for the 2022 Busan International Architecture Design Workshop and his works have been shown at multiple international exhibitions, including the Busan Architecture Festival (2022) and the Shenzhen + Hong Kong Urbanism/Architecture Bi-City Biennale (2022). Prior to joining the GSD, Nicholas was a researcher at MATR Lab and has worked at architectural offices such as WXY Architecture + Urban Design and Horizontal Design.