Cuong Ha

Getting out of comfort zone can change someone’s vision about what they really want to do in life, I strongly believe in that way of thinking when I came to Italy, I never expected that someday I would fall in love with landscape and public space, Italy completely change the way I evaluate architecture which previously took for granted that it is the territory of the buildings. Architecture to me is like a journey, the more you travel the more likely that you change your view about life, about everything around you. My travel in the academic world and the real world in Europe and Japan taught me that it has to be more than just the buiding itself, it is the “life between buildings” (Jan Gehl). I definitely acknowledge that the “public realm” is the most possible place for architects to make meaning, for his own practice, for his own life and above all for people. With those experiences, I wish to transform the cities in Vietnam and to changing people’s mentality about landscape and public space, together we can make a better place, a better livable city. Let’s go public, let’s go landscape !

EDUCATION

Master of Sustainable Architecture in Politecnico di Milano university Overall GPA: 110/110 Piacenza, Italy,2013-2015

Bachelor of Architecture and Urban planning in National university of Civil Engineering (NUCE) Overall GPA: 3.48/4 Hanoi, Vietnam, 2007-2012

CERTIFICATE Building Performance Analysis certi- cate (BPA) certified by Autodesk

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Architect at Nishizawa architects. Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam., Jul 2016-Nov 2016

Intern Architect at Junya.Ishigami + Associates Tokyo, Japan, Jan 2016 – March 2016

Editor/Architectural Assistant at www.kientruc.eu Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov 2012 – Aug 2013

PRIZES

Gold scholarship / Granted by Politecnico di Milano. Milano, Italy, 2013

Vietnam Italy Steel scholarship (VIS) for excellent study results in the graduation course, 2012

“Eco Design” / Second Prize / Dulux Akzo Nobel Vietnam, 2010

Euro Window Scholarship for students with excellent academic performance, 2009

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