Born in New York City, Ken Chongsuwat graduated with a degree in architecture in 2011, and a professional degree in landscape architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, receiving the Norman T. Newton award in 2015.
He is a registered Landscape Architect in the State of New York. His previous experience includes working in the New York offices of OMA, AECOM, and BIG contributing on various architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning projects.
Since 2021 he splits his time as a designer at A7 /LA.ST and part time studio instructor / course co-ordinator focusing on architecture, community, landscape, and urbanism at INDA Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
He spends his free time on the court and field competing in basketball, football, rugby, and most recently tennis.
Education
Harvard University Graduate School of Design Cambridge, MA Masters in Landscape Architecture, 2015Norman T. Newton Prize in DesignAn annual prize to be awarded to a graduating landscape architecture student whose work best exemplifies achievement in design expression as realized in any medium.
Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, THBsc in Architecture and Design (INDA), 2011
Professional Experience
A-Seven Co.Ltd / LA.ST Bangkok, TH 2022
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) Brooklyn, NY 2018
Aecom Landscape Studio New York, NY 2017
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), New York, NY 2015
West 8, New York, NY 2014
Shma Co.Ltd Bangkok, TH 2011
Academic Experience
Chulalongkorn University, INDA (Instructor / Course Coordinator), Bangkok, TH 2022
Function LAB With Asensio-Mah (Research Assistant) Cambridge, MA 2014
STOSS Landscape Urbanism (Research Assistant) Cambridge, MA 2013
Harvard GSD (Teaching Assistant) Cambridge, MA 2014-2015
Bruner Loeb Forum / Bernard & Anne Spitzer SOA (Research Assistant) New York, NY 2013