Nicholas Chung

nicholas_chung@gsd.harvard.edu

Nicholas Chung is a PhD student studying the histories and theories of architecture at Harvard University. He is interested in how pedagogical and research methods enabled repeated efforts to emulate outcomes of modernization, particularly across Eastern Asia throughout the twentieth century. Nicholas holds a Master's in Design Studies from Harvard GSD (with Distinction), and a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University (Summa Cum Laude with a minor in Geography). Prior to doctoral studies, he co-curated From Utopia to Ubiquity at the Yale School of Architecture (2025) and was the Curatorial Assistant for Architecture’s Inscriptions at the TANK Shanghai (2026). Nicholas received the 2025 Dimitris Pikionis Award, and his design work has been presented at the Busan Architectural Festival (2022) and Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale (2021).

From Utopia to Ubiquity

[Exhibition]
03.2025 - 05.2025
Yale School of Architecture North Gallery
Curator

[Research]
2023-2025

capstone for Masters in Design Studies, Harvard GSD

Architecture‘s Inscriptions

[Exhibition]
06.2024 - 10.2026
TANK Shanghai
Curatorial Assistant

Infinitude in Reflectivity

[Essay]
03.2024

for Competing Visions of Modern Japan
taught by Seng Kuan, Harvard GSD

Depot [+] Living

[Design]
09.2023 - 12.2023

Honorable Mention / Buildner Los Angeles Housing Challenge

Japanese Mass Housing and its Multiple Natures

[Essay]
12.2023

for Origins and Contemporary Practices of Asian Landscape Architecture
taught by Jungyoon Kim, Harvard GSD

The Mythology of A Japan

[Essay]
12.2023

for Proseminar in Narratives
taught by Ed Eigen, Harvard GSD

Fieldnotes on Reflexivity: Learning from Kabukicho

[Essay]
12.2023

for The Project and the Territory: Japan Story
taught by Mohsen Mostafavi, Harvard GSD

Shinjuku Flaneuring: Between Muji and the Erotic Godzilla

[Research and Exhibition]
08.2022 - 05.2023

[Essay]
12.2022

undergraduate thesis
advised by Joseph Godlewski, Syracuse Architecture

Tetravoltaics

[Design Research]
05.2022 - 09.2022

for MATR Lab
advised by Daekwon Park, Syracuse Architecture

Shortlist / LAGI 2022

Connective Corridor

[Design]
06.2022 - 08.2022

for Busan Architecture Festival 2022

Grand Prize / 2022 Busan International Architecture Design Workshop

Grabhub

[Design]
01.2022 - 05.2022

for Integrated Design Studio
taught by Daekwon Park, Syracuse Architecture

Silver Prize / 2022 Asian Design Awards
Honorable Mention / 2022 ACSA Steel Competition
Exhibition / 2022 Shenzhen + Hong Kong Urbanism/Architecture Bi-City Biennalé

SoHo Commoning

[Design]
01.2021 - 05.2021

for Option Studio
taught by Angela Co, Syracuse Architecture

[Research]

The Contested Street

[Research]
01.2020 - 05.2020

for Architecture Theory
taught by Britt Eversole, Syracuse University

The Barcelona Pavilion(s) of Infinite Imaginary

[Essay]