Randy is a Vietnamese-American (b.1995, Singapore) architectural designer, photographer, artist, and sailor. He enjoys making things and using them as vehicles to connect with people, community, culture, and craft.
Randy is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Department of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Randy is the 2023 recipient of the Clifford Wong Prize in Housing from Harvard GSD and the 2017 recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi Medal from UMass Amherst.
Randy has previously worked as an Architectural Designer at the Center of Design Engagement, Utile Architecture & Planning, and MASS Design Group. He has experience working on ground-up, interior, and masterplanning projects. These include multi-family housing developments, workspaces, and the use of mass timber.
Randy has served on design juries at UMass Amherst, Northeastern University, Boston University, and Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Randy has a passion for the ocean. He began sailing at a young age, learning the ropes from his dad - a lifelong long mariner and naval architect himself. Randy has logged hundreds of hours on the water and is the steward of an antique Marshall 22 catboat, which he learned to sail on and maintain as a boy. Over the past couple years, he has completed extended cruises around the Masschusetts, Cape Cod, and Buzzards Bay waters.
Randy has worked with local oyster farmers in his homeport of Duxbury, MA and has a keen interest in coastal urbanism and marine typologies.
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