Profile
Phu Hoang, AIA, FAAR
Phu Hoang is a Founding Principal of the transdisciplinary studio MODU. He has led numerous projects, including the Exhale art park and the
Promenade mixed-use center. He is a recipient of the Rome
Prize in Architecture, an award recognizing 'the highest standards
of excellence in the arts and humanities'. He has also been honored with the Emerging Voices prize from the Architectural League of New York and the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The practice received research grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
He served as Head of the Architecture Section at the Knowlton School of The Ohio State University (OSU), where he held the Robert S. Livesey Professorship. Prior to joining OSU, he taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a
Bachelor of Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta
and a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University in New York. He is
a fellow and trustee of the American Academy in Rome, President of its Society
of Fellows, and a licensed architect in New York.
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