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’s passion for architecture has been shaped by his close relationship with the sea—a landscape of leisure, work, and hazard that is bound by a cooperative code of conduct. He is interested in how maritime intelligence can make its way inland to shape the public realm and built environment.
Randy holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Department of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Randy is a 2024 Merit Winner of the Lyceum Traveling Fellowship in Architecture, a 2024 recipient of a Public Art Grant for Harvard’s Arts First Festival, the 2023 recipient of Harvard’s Clifford Wong Prize in Housing, and the 2017 recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi Medal from UMass Amherst.
Randy is currently a Senior Designer at MASS Design Group in Boston, MA. He has previously worked as at the Center of Design Engagement and Utile Architecture & Planning, where he gained experience working on public art, ground-up, interior, and vision planning 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, Tufts University, and Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Randy is the steward of an antique Marshall 22 catboat, which he learned to sail on and maintain as a boy. Has logged hundreds of hours on the water over the past two decades and 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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