OFFICE PINGA
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OFFICE PINGA is a multidisciplinary design agency focused on interior design and landscape architecture. Design ethos centers around lighting, materiality, playfulness, and nature-inspired spaces. We design in many forms, and with diverse budgets. 
 
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Education

Diana Guo 
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design 
MLA, M.Des
(2023) 

Mingjia Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Department of Architecture 
M.Arch, MCP 
(2025) 

Client Projects

2025
Art Loft Residence
20th C Loft 
New York, NY

2024
Pacific Forest Residence
Townhome Renovation 
Vancouver BC

2023
Urban Retreat Residence 
New Construction Condo 
New York, NY

Awards

2023 
Award of Excellence 
American Society of Landscape Architects 

GSD Domain Prize 
Harvard University

2022 
Penny White Fellowship Grant 
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Fellowship 
Andrew Mellon Urban Initiative Grant 

2021
First Prize. “Brewing Flower Power: Reclaiming Feminist Space in Hyde Park.”
Cities for All Competition 

Interviewed by CBC News
Project Feature: “Snow Bank: Upcycling Snow Waste for District Cooling.”

Honorable Mention. “Migrating Biodome, an Arctic Foods Kit for Food Sovereignty.”
Cities for All Competition 

Top 10 Editor’s Choice Award, “Reclaiming Feminist Space.”
Winter Pavilion Switch Competitions


2020
Winner 
Award of Applied Arts 

Publications

2025

‘Still Water’, 
Thresholds (MIT Press) 

‘Megafaunas of the Past and Future’
LA+ Journal
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design

2023 

‘Making Transpacific Kin’, 
Harvard University MDes Thesis 


2022

‘Queer Ecological Cinemas’, 
Out of Frame Magazine
MIT Department of Architecture

‘Watery Abundance: Building Collective Action Through Foodways’, 
Harvard Urban Review
Issue 04 “Overlooked”, pp. 63-74.

“Seeking Abundance” 
Ground Up Journal
University of California Berkeley, 
Issue 11: “Feedback”, Aug 2022. 


2021

First Place, Project Feature
“Brewing Flower Power: Reclaiming Feminist Space in Hyde Park.” 
Bustler Magazine, Archinect, Canadian Architect (Feb 2021). 

“Moonshot.” Solo poem
Peripheries: A Journal of Word and Image, Issue 4. 
On Shelf at Grolier Poetry Books, 2021. 
ISSN 2767-9586.

“Floating Between Borders…Or, Perhaps, an Earth Without Borders?” 
Harvard Urban Review
Issue 03: Sick Space, June 2021. 

“Drawing Together: To the Disciplinary Divide.” 
Open Letters #85, 
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Bavoso, Mark, Clingen, Kira, Crespo, Teresa, Guo, Diana

“The Common Border.” 
On Site Review, Issue 38: 2021
Lines, Borders, and Breaches. 

“Floating Between Borders.” 
On Site Review, Issue 38: 2021, 
Lines, Borders, and Breaches.
Edited by Stephanie White
March 2021.


2020

Featured Project, “Soundscapes” 
Platform 11
Harvard GSD 

Winner, Featured Project, “Snowbank.” 
Applied Arts Magazine


2018